Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. It's very unfortunate that parts and supplies are still going to the Myanmar military, including from the west. I'm not sure about the Canadian arms out there, but from Europe and the U.S., companies are directly or indirectly providing them. That's why we need

Foreign Affairs committee  I just want to point out that the national unity government is not an exiled government. Actually, the acting president, the prime minister and many of the ministers are working inside Myanmar. Also, the national unity government...even though NUG members are included, NUG

Foreign Affairs committee   and sustainable peace hub, Geneva Graduate Institute; and Mr. Zaw Kyaw, spokesman for the government in exile of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Witnesses, I should let each of you know that you get five minutes for your opening remarks. After having heard from you, we will open

Foreign Affairs committee   imposed in response to human rights violations.” We have seen over the past several years that for Russia, Iran, Myanmar, Venezuela, Haiti and Sri Lanka, individuals from these countries have been sanctioned, but noticeably absent from our list are countries where clear human rights

Foreign Affairs committee   than 50 sanctions packages. Given the expected protracted nature of the conflict, we anticipate that this will continue. Since January 2022, Canada has also imposed sanctions to respond to situations in Haiti, Iran, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Taken together with sanctions related

Foreign Affairs committee   tied to other countries or regimes, such as Myanmar, Syria and, most recently, Iran, following the so-called morality police's brutal human rights violations—just to name a few. While some of these individuals are currently inadmissible to Canada, the majority

Canadian Heritage committee   allegations made against Meta. I'm speaking of course, Madam Chair, of the horrific allegations contained in reports recently about Facebook amplifying hate. The Amnesty International report found that Facebook amplified hate ahead of the Rohingya massacre in Myanmar, and the Bureau

International Trade committee   negotiations with ASEAN. That said, the biggest challenge about negotiating a trade agreement with a 10-country grouping is the different levels of development among the countries. You have members of ASEAN, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, at lower levels of development

Foreign Affairs committee   the overdocumentation we've seen in Myanmar regarding the Rohingya or what we've seen in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to the Murad Code. Really, we're trying to deal with many partners—universities, civil society and national authorities as well—and collectively build this common ground where

Foreign Affairs committee   as chair of the UN Peacebuilding Commission from 2020 to 2021; serving as chair of the ECOSOC advisory committee on Haiti throughout my time in New York; and chairing a number of “group of friends”, including those on Afghanistan, Myanmar, children and armed conflict, and financing

Online Streaming Act   attempted time and time again to deal with Facebook and YouTube on toxic disinformation that led to genocidal levels of death in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. We met with delegations from Singapore on their attempts to get these Silicon Valley companies to take responsibility for the hate

Online Streaming Act   with online harm for children and the vulnerable, the exploitation of people that has happened and the proliferation of hate and violence that we have seen in jurisdictions like Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Brazil. There have to be legal consequences. I think we need to look at those issues

Finance committee   think back to what happened in the Republic of Myanmar after World War I, when they had hyperinflation, essentially because of loose monetary policies. In Canada we saw the Bank of Canada embark on a historic program of quantitative easing and acquiring bonds in an attempt to keep

Foreign Affairs  , economically and militarily. Over the past year alone, Canada has increased its use of sanctions in response to numerous global crises, including Russia's illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, as well as respond to the situations in Iran, Myanmar and Haiti. In 2022 alone, Canada

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   seeing various aspects of discrimination, and I guess it happens in Afghanistan as well in ethnic minorities. We're seeing it in ethnic minorities in Myanmar, Iraq and other countries.