Mr. Speaker, we wish to draw attention today to the sixth anniversary of the sad events that took place in June of 1989 in Tiananmen Square, where thousands of students were massacred in the violent crackdown on their democratic movement by the Chinese leadership.
Despite the hopes that this widespread movement had raised, democracy is no further ahead today in China.
All the while, this government just turns its back on the promotion of human rights by concentrating exclusively on the economic aspect of its relations with China.
By repudiating a well-established tradition of promoting human rights, the government reduces the status of Canada to that of a minor and petty market power lacking vision, with a foreign policy based on double talk.