Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act  , and with respect to the ongoing, brutal repression of religious freedom in Tibet. I also note that on the issue of the rights of workers in China, China has one of the worst records of any country in the world on the issue of workplace health and safety. In the year 2000 alone more than 47,000

Tiananmen Square   are all continuing in China. As well, China continues to ruthlessly suppress the human rights and religious freedoms of the people of Tibet and to supply arms to bloody military regimes such as Burma. Finally, our government must be just as vigorous and publicly outspoken in defence

Employment Equity Act  . I wonder, actually, if his colleague from Edmonton--Strathcona would agree. He might be just a little bit uncomfortable, twitching a little bit, sitting and listening to that member, the same member, by the way, who called Nelson Mandela a terrorist and wore a “Free Tibet” T

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, a number of Vancouver East constituents have written to ask for the Canadian government's intervention in a very serious infringement of human rights. Twelve Buddhist nuns in Tibet have recently been sentenced to prison terms for participating in a demonstration

International Actions Against Terrorism   against terrorism but what is its price? Do we think that American and western criticism of China's treatment of minorities will be intensified or diminished after September 11? If people were members of the Falun Gong, of the Christian minority or citizens in Tibet or Taiwan would

Foreign Affairs   billions of dollars spent in the gulf in a very short period of time with the inaction in Yugoslavia where children are being killed daily, with the inaction in East Timor where Roman Catholics are being slaughtered by Muslim extremists, and the inaction in Tibet where China

Foreign Affairs   and, in Tibet, torture and the suppression of dissent and labour rights. How then does the foreign minister explain the Prime Minister's bizarre suggestion yesterday that the human rights situation in China has actually improved? Will this minister show that Canada is serious about human

China  Mr. Speaker, this morning, as a democratic citizen concerned with the respect for human rights and as the Bloc Quebecois spokesperson for the Asia-Pacific, I took part in a press conference organized by the Canada-Tibet Committee in order to support a demand that the Prime

Speech From The Throne   camps, not just the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners but minority Christians, Catholics, evangelical Protestants, Muslims and other religious minorities, and the people of Tibet? My second question touches on what the member passionately said at the outset of his remarks

Speech From The Throne   activities in certain countries such as Tibet, Chad and Angola? Will he put pressure on companies in the international communities and countries to ensure that their resources will be applied to primary health and education instead of war efforts? I cite the specific example of Angola

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act   there. We have seen cases recently, such as the group that came through India last summer from Tibet. We know for a fact that some of those people spent several years in India and others spent several years in Germany. They could easily have applied through those countries. Since we know

Crimes Against Humanity Act   present and who wanted to get involved. People are working in solidarity with movements, trying to promote human rights in many different parts of the world. Whether it is in Burma or Colombia, working on behalf of the Kurds or in solidarity with Tibet, and in many other parts

Tiananmen Square   dissenters are courting disaster. We therefore call on the government of China to release those still in prison. We also call on China to moderate its views on Tibet, and on the World Bank not to approve a project which would move Chinese farmers into an area used by Tibetan

Kosovo   everywhere. They are happening outside Europe. We need only think of the people of Tibet, whose government is in exile in India. They happen pretty much the world over. We saw what happened in Asia. So, I say, enough. We speak of globalization in trade terms, but maybe we should think

Danny Virtue   Neon Rider series which was filmed primarily in Mission. He also manages the old west bordertown set in Maple Ridge, also in my riding. Mr. Virtue has worked on over 300 TV shows and motion pictures including the movie Seven Years in Tibet . The CBC-Alliance Pictures show Nothing