Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise. I also want to follow up on a petition in support of Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted in China by the Chinese Communist Party, like Gao Lijuan who is a prisoner of conscience. Because she is a Falun Gong practitioner not allowed to practise, the government has thrown her and many others in jail, which is disgusting.
However, as we all know, talking about the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, over 1.5 million people have signed petitions to stop this disgusting and barbaric practice of using political prisoners in China as sources of organs that are then sold around the world. This was brought to light, as was mentioned, by our former colleague David Kilgour as well as by David Matas, a human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg.
We need to follow suit as the European Parliament has done, passing a resolution condemning this practice. Falun Gong practitioners here in Canada who signed this petition are asking the House to pass this, bring in new legislation and end the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.