Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   and characters, is the intellectual architects of the second-generation ethnic policies that Xi Jinping has adopted. The people overseeing the implementation of that...not just in Tibet. They're also in East Turkestan or the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Those people are actually

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   the similarities between boarding preschools for Uighurs in Xinjiang and Tibetans in Tibet. It is exactly the same. There are no differences. On the other hand, there are some strategic differences between China's treatment of Tibet and Uighurs. I can share with you a concrete example

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   Tibetan. Quickly, people will ask how we can say that they're not learning Tibetan when here they are, learning Tibetan. I wanted to point out—and I think all Canadians can understand this—that one Tibetan-language class being taught in Tibet to Tibetan children, where

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   and this important study. In my seven years of representing the community of Parkdale that Ms. Lhamo was mentioning, I've certainly learned a great deal about Tibet and the Tibetan struggle. In my role as chair of Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, I've taken some encouragement at certain times

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   and French or the interpretation. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), our subcommittee is studying the issue of the Chinese government's residential boarding schools and preschools in the Tibet Autonomous Region and all Tibetan autonomous prefectures and counties. We have four witnesses

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   authorities call the Tibet Autonomous Region and in Tibetan areas in other provinces, had actually increased Chinese-medium schooling at all levels except in the study of the Tibetan language itself. Under the guise of improving access to education, Chinese authorities established

Committees of the House   put forward this motion, first in committee and now in the House of Commons, in hopes of advancing freedom and justice for the people of Tibet. I presented this same motion in the last Parliament. In both cases, it was adopted and referred to this House. With this concurrence

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. That was very gracious of you, Ms. McPherson. We're now at three o'clock. I'd like to thank all the witnesses for being here, and I am wishing you strength as you continue to raise the issue of Tibet and to educate people like us and civil society. We really

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We're hearing more and more that China may move on Taiwan. Actually, it's no longer a question of if it's going to happen, it's a question of when. If China were to move on Taiwan, what would that mean for the people of Tibet? Ms. Tethong, could you

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   was in China, in Tibet. It's very clear that they're going to dramatically change their attitude. They will do the harmful policy as much as they can by promoting their ideology about one nation—which means Han Chinese—one language and one country. They've already set up the agenda

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   you've lived under the system of colonization and repression for so long, is it suddenly our fault that we're sending kids to these schools when there is really no choice? In our Tibetan community, inside and outside of Tibet, we have a lot to learn. I would appreciate opportunities

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   project a decade out and work backwards on everything from colonial boarding schools in Tibet to the Uighurs to many others issues including Chinese human rights defenders and Hong Kong and transnational repression. There's room for all of this at the UN, and I think you would find

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I was just going to say that Tibetans from Tibet will always say that you have to understand that the Chinese leadership respects strength. To tiptoe around them and to do whatever, to bend over backwards to avoid any uncomfortable exchanges, we can see that's not their approach

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   genocide—but then, at the implementation level, we automatically get asked about abuse and neglect, because that's such a massive part of the story of residential schools in Canada: the horrors of residential schools in Canada. We don't have enough information from Tibet. We assume

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much for all of this. It's given me certainly an awful lot to think about. I would go back, though, if I could, to Ms. Tethong, to see if there's a response to that question. We did talk about it a bit, about how we support Tibet also within the context. Could