Mr. Speaker, the second petition is in regard to the Falun Gong. It is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline, consisting of meditation exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. We are very concerned about the fact that the Chinese Communist Party is persecuting practitioners extensively.
Canadian lawyer David Matas and former Canadian secretary of state for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour have investigated and they have information on that. The Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting has over 1.5 million petition signatures. The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning this behaviour.
Therefore, they are requesting that the Canadian government pass a resolution to establish measures to stop the Chinese Communist regime, amend Canadian legislation to combat forced organ harvesting and to publicly, if the government would, please, call for an end to the persecution of the Falun Gong in China.