Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition from about 200 residents of Edmonton.
Whereas Falun Gong practitioners have been the largest and most severely persecuted group in China since 1999 and Canadian investigators have concluded that a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience have been put to death to harvest their organs, and whereas democratic nations have a responsibility to condemn such atrocities, the petitioners condemn the Chinese Communist Party's system of cruelly murdering Falun Gong practitioners for their organs and publicly call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.