Petitions  Madam Speaker, as a member of the Liberal Party, I am presenting a petition on what is happening in Myanmar, or Burma, and to the Rohingya people. It deals with the illegitimate military junta in Burma and the indiscriminate killing, torture, rape, imprisonment, displacement

Petitions  , causing an increased need for vital humanitarian assistance. Among other things, they also note that Canada has outlined its own obligations to aid in the Myanmar crisis as reported in “Canada's strategy to respond to the Rohingya and Myanmar crises (2021 to 2024)”, as well as our

Foreign Affairs committee   mentioned, Canada sanctioned the aviation fuel supplies, but they skirt around the sanctions. Canada and its allies should use the protection and indemnity clubs to ban insurance for the vessels supplying aviation fuel to Myanmar. The Myanmar military relies 100% on imported jet fuels

Foreign Affairs committee   in Canada. I think resources are a key priority. I'd like to ask a question of our witness from Myanmar, Burma, if I could. You spoke a bit about the arms and the Myanmar military. Could you talk a bit about how Canada could better ensure that all arms, including Canadian parts

Foreign Affairs committee  Oil and gas sanctions are a source of vulnerability to the Myanmar military. Yes, we have done a lot of sanctions from Canada, many of them symbolic, but Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise alone has a revenue of $1.5 billion. It is the single source of income, of foreign exchange

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you to the witnesses for being here. Mr. Kyaw, I'll ask you most of my questions. I know that you are the spokesperson for the national unity government, in exile, for Myanmar and that you are responding to the military junta in Myanmar. I think that's important, what

Financial Institutions  . The bank has said that it is willing to lend to Myanmar's military junta, which has been targeting the Rohingya minority, and there are suggestions that it is willing to resume lending to Russia. What more proof does the government need to conclude that this bank runs contrary

Foreign Affairs committee  I think it was also said that there was no sanctioning done under Magnitsky, when there actually has been a sanction under Magnitsky in Canada with respect to Myanmar. I wanted to make sure that was on the record.

Foreign Affairs committee   of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the committee hold 3 meetings looking specifically at Russia’s collaboration with other rogue states such as Iran, North Korea, and Myanmar, with a particular emphasis on weapons technology sharing and on efforts to circumvent western sanctions

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act   individuals from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, South Sudan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and North Korea. Without these proposed amendments, many of those who are sanctioned in these states may continue to access Canada and threaten the safety of all those who live in our

Foreign Affairs committee  . It looks like in Myanmar we haven't changed anything. Really, things are worse. Do we have indicators that we can use, for instance, to measure and look at how we're getting to where we want to go? What happens if you sanction the country and that country continues to escalate its

Foreign Affairs committee   to is this: Should we expand sanctions to countries that...? We are already sanctioning Myanmar, but should we expand sanctions to countries that are being used as funnels by other countries that are already sanctioned? How do we do that? How do we know that is going on?

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