Mr. Speaker, the next petition I have to present comes from people from across the country who are concerned about the treatment of the Falun Gong in China. They note that millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been arbitrarily detained, including family members of Canadians, and they are concerned about the forced labour that is being perpetrated upon the Falun Gong population back in India.
They also call for the Government of Canada to recognize somewhere between 60,000 to 100,000 forced organ harvest transplants that may be happening in China and they are concerned that there may be thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who have been murdered for their organs over the last 15 years.
Since May 2015, thousands of Chinese citizens have filed criminal complaints against the Communist Party leader, who has orchestrated this persecution of the Falun Gong.
The petitioners call on the Government of Canada and Parliament to establish measures to ensure that the products that we buy here are not made with Falun Gong forced labour and that people who are innocently going to China for organ transplants are not being sold organs from Falun Gong practitioners. They call on the government to take every opportunity to call for the end of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and urge the Chinese authorities to end that practice in China.