Madam Speaker, the last petition I have to present today is from Canadians across the country who want to draw to the attention of the House of Commons the forced organ harvesting and persecution of the Falun Gong. Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in forced labour camps, brainwashing centres and prisons, in which torture and abuse are routine and thousands have died.
They also want to call the attention of the House the work of the late David Kilgour, who conducted an investigation in 2006. It was concluded that the Chinese regime and its agencies throughout China have put to death a large number of Falun Gong practitioners of conscience and that their vital organs were seized involuntarily for sale at a high price.
The petitioners note that 1.5 million people from over 50 countries have signed petitions and presented them to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for immediate action to end the unethical practice of forced organ harvesting in China and persecution of the Falun Gong. As such, they ask the Government of Canada to pass a resolution establishing measures to stop the systematic murdering of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs, to amend Canadian legislation to combat forced organ harvesting and to publicly call for the end of the persecution of the Falun Gong in China.