Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for being here, Minister. I'm sorry to have come in a few minutes late. We had a bit of a room mix-up on my end. Maybe you anticipated this question from me. I want to ask you just a bit about Canada's aid to Burma. We've had a lot of discussion recently about

Situation in Myanmar  , but the reality is that the government that was elected in Burma was not taking this issue seriously. The Canadian government said it was going to give it $44 million, and there has been little accountability for that money. If I go on the website international.gc.ca tonight, under “Canadian

Situation in Myanmar  Mr. Speaker, I thank the minister for being here and for speaking. I want to ask her a question I had asked earlier that may not fall directly within her portfolio, which was the role, if any, the Office of Human Rights, Freedoms and Inclusion is taking in the context of Burma

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, I am here again to raise the issue of the ethnic cleansing facing the Rohingya community in Burma. This is an issue that I understand we will now be discussing at greater length tomorrow in the context of an emergency debate. I am grateful for that opportunity

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  ”, or “active genocide”, as I call it. My mother was a survivor of a big massacre that took place in 1942 when Burma was still a British colony. During that period, half of the entire Rohingya population was massacred. My father was arrested by the government and killed in jail in 1978

Procedure and House Affairs committee   some form of partnership. Several of these signs were used during public Liberal campaign events, photo ops, and “Burma shaving” to demonstrate some kind of official support by the Green Party for the Liberal Party candidate. Several public statements were also made suggesting

Foreign Affairs committee   this and there has been a lot of discussion about it here, but we have an unfolding genocide that we haven't been able to stop or hold people accountable for. We have the application of similar techniques in the abuse of other minorities in Burma—the Chin, the Kachin, and others—and the Burmese

Foreign Affairs committee   to combat genocide and crimes against humanity, we have to be able to react in real time. Just as an observation, I've only been a member of Parliament for two and half years, and we've dealt with two major instances of genocide, one in Burma and one in Daesh-controlled areas of Syria

Information & Ethics committee  That's my next question. When people are engaging SCL, Cambridge Analytica, or AggregateIQ, particularly for elections, what are they buying? What we were led to believe through AggregateIQ is that it's like Burma-Shave: you just put a little thing on Facebook, and they were

Information & Ethics committee  I appreciate your very Canadian political term of “Burma-Shave”. I haven't heard that in a long time.

Parks Canada Agency Act   that provide matching funds. The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, or Burma, was mentioned again today in the House. The government will be matching funds. During the Fort McMurray fires, the government matched funds as well. This is just a comparison as we reflect on the contents of the bill

Indigenous Affairs  , but it took until this fall, as far as we know at least, for that direct contact to be made. Of course, we also need to see direct engagement with Min Aung Hlaing, the commander in chief. Burma has a divided government system, but, nonetheless, we continue to contend that Aung San Suu Kyi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Rae, how much do you think the foreign investment that is presently in Burma is impeding the capability to develop this coalition to put pressure on the Myanmar government?

Status of Women   that, 80 years ago, between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women and girls were raped, and approximately 300,000 people were killed. Over the course of World War II, an estimated 200,000 women and girls from China, Korea, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other occupied territories

Foreign Affairs committee  I understand that funding was delivered through the Forum of Federations for support for decentralized governance in Burma. I understand that these recent proposals are not all for government-to-government aid but work through partners. Of course, there are still a lot