Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair, for the introduction. Members, thank you for having Global Affairs Canada officials here today to discuss the tragic events unfolding in Myanmar following the military's seizure of power last month. On February 1 the Myanmar military, also known

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I want to follow up briefly on the issue of Canadian investments in holdings owned by the Tatmadaw. I'll read a quote to you from an article in the Globe and Mail last year. I think it was last year, or it may be older: Among the Myanmar military-related

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present. The first petition is on the coup in Myanmar. The petitioners call on the government to condemn the coup in the strongest terms. They call for the immediate and unconditional release of all elected officials as well as political

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act  , whether weapons industries or others that support the military. I wanted to use my time to talk about one particular human rights situation that is very relevant to this bill: the situation in Myanmar, where significant human rights violations are going on. We have a genocide before

Foreign Affairs committee  As I may have indicated earlier, prior to the coup Canada already had in place one of the most comprehensive sanctions regimes on Myanmar as compared to like-minded partners, including the EU, the U.K. and the U.S. As I indicated earlier, prior to the coup Canada had already

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing. We know that the military junta fired Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations, and we know that Myanmar's ambassador to the United Kingdom was recently recalled. What is the status of Myanmar's ambassador

Foreign Affairs committee  Myanmar's ambassador to Canada arrived prior to the coup. He is awaiting his credentials, so he is not formally recognized as of yet, but we have engaged with both the ambassador-designate and his staff on a day-to-day basis. The Embassy of Myanmar remains operational. We

Foreign Affairs committee  Historically, one of the strengths of the Tatmadaw internally, including the control of the constitution, has been their economic activity. They have private sources of income. They control a number of huge companies within Myanmar. They also have international support

Foreign Affairs committee  Does that mean there are some efforts at hand to deal with the Canadian funds being invested in the kinds of businesses that are helping to strengthen the military in Myanmar on an ongoing basis? Is Canada going to do anything about Canadian investment funds that are investing

Foreign Affairs committee   signed a $2 million contract with General Mya Tun Oo, Myanmar's minister of defence. The article mentions that Global Affairs Canada was aware of this transaction. Do the special economic measures for Myanmar apply to these designated individuals or not? Clearly, Canadian companies

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you to the chairperson and the honourable members of Parliament for inviting me to appear before this committee to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on internally displaced people in Myanmar. My name is Manny Maung and I'm the Myanmar researcher for Human Rights Watch

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the chance to come back to familiar haunts. It's good to see all of you. I am going to focus my remarks on both Myanmar and Bangladesh to give you a sense of the condition of the Rohingya refugees as well as other refugees

Business of Supply   accountable for their actions, including Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Iran, Belarus, China and Myanmar. We have also been strong proponents of digital inclusion and press freedom. The recent diversion and forced landing of a commercial airliner in Belarus reminds us that there is still a lot

Public Safety committee   Sunday worship, for instance, and religious fundamentalism, which exists in all of the world's major monotheistic religions, whether it be Islam, Christianity or Buddhism, as Mr. Gurski mentioned. In Myanmar, the terrorists are Buddhists, thank you very much. I don't think those

Foreign Affairs committee  As I stated earlier, we have very robust sanctions in place against Myanmar under SEMA. We also have a single individual of the Myanmar military, Maung Maung Soe, who is listed under the JVCFOA or Canada's Magnitsky sanctions. We are constantly looking at the best mechanisms