International Trade committee  If there's resistance to doing it in a bloc...the United States hasn't done it in a bloc, which may well have something to do with their relations with Myanmar. But the United States is doing it country by country. They're dealing with Thailand and with others within ASEAN.

International Trade committee   and language training, especially to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Myanmar, Brunei, and Thailand, where quality English instruction is very much needed. In the field of dental and medical tourism, Vietnam is flourishing, as does the Philippines. During my most recent trip to Manila

Committees of the House   the local Nepalese population. Refugees are the Muslims from northern Rakhine State in Myanmar who have been in limbo for the past 14 years. Some 28,000 of these refugees, known as Rohingyas, are stuck in two temporary camps in Bangladesh, which were set up in the first place

Burma  Mr. Speaker, Burma, also known as Myanmar, is a small country nestled among Thailand, China and India. It is ruled by one of the most brutal military juntas in the world, with forced labour, sexual violence, child soldiering and numerous political imprisonments, including its

Status of Women committee   of decriminalization, but there's also a piece in which you talk about international and national economic policies, globalization, of various countries, like Cameroon, Cambodia, and Myanmar--Burma--which we know has the worst human rights record in the world. I wonder if you can draw

Status of Women committee   projects with victims in Cambodia, Myanmar, Romania, Moldova, and, most recently, this summer in Ecuador and in Cameroon. Our attention focused back on Canada, on Calgary--I'm from Calgary originally--when the police raided a massage parlour and found, lo and behold, women from

Status of Women committee   is that these are the directions from last year, or two years ago, or three years ago. These are the cases we know. If we say this year it's Korea, guess what? The guys will move from Myanmar. If we say it's Jamaica, the next thing you know it will be Honduras. If we say it's Honduras, it will be somewhere

Status of Women committee   to be offered by the RCMP; it's going to be offered locally. If you look at the rest of the planet, there's a whole range. There are documented cases of victims returning to Myanmar who were given cyanide at the border because they had contracted HIV/AIDS. There are victims returning

Status of Women committee   officers, both in Canada and in other countries. We have worked locally and nationally with our colleagues from the RCMP and other police forces. We also work internationally, again on human trafficking, with colleagues from Central America and with UNICEF in Vietnam and in Myanmar. So

Darfur   in the world, lest we forget Zimbabwe, the Congo and Burma/Myanmar.

Mining Industry  , Myanmar, the Philippines and Guatemala. Does the minister realize that, with that attitude, he is giving companies the green light to do what they want, without any respect for the rights of the communities?

Committees of the House   as the leader of a government in exile and is also a Nobel prize laureate. In the corresponding years the human rights record of the regime in Burma, or as some refer to it as Myanmar, has been horrendous. The systematic persecutions, rapes, tortures and killings are horrendous.

Committees of the House   from Burma or Myanmar? They have not been blocked out of the meeting. They in fact are included in that. I wonder if the member was aware of that. She is indicating that she was not aware of that, but that is the case. I wonder if she would have any comments on that.

Supply   that the CPP should invest in Ivanhoe? As she knows, Ivanhoe has a mine in Burma, Myanmar, where 50 people were killed last May, with bamboo poles I understand, not very far away from the Ivanhoe facility. I remind her that Canadians, including Albertans, got Petro-Canada to pull out

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, on Friday, May 30, the convoy of Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was attacked, members of her entourage were killed and wounded, and 19 colleagues, along with her, were arrested. She is being held by the military junta in protective custody, though