Madam Speaker, the petitioners involved in this particular petition highlight the Falun Gong situation. They highlight that this is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline, which consists of meditation, exercise and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance.
As members have already brought to the House's attention, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting has received about 1.5 million petition signatures from over 50 countries. The petition was presented to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. It calls for immediate action to end the unethical practice of forced organ harvesting in China; it also calls for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
The petitioners in this petition specifically request that the Canadian Parliament and government pass a resolution to establish measures to stop the Chinese Communist regime's crime of systematically murdering Falun Gong practitioners for their organs; amend Canadian legislation to combat forced organ harvesting; and publicly call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.