Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much, Chairman Regan. It is my honour to be able to testify in front of the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations. As we all are aware, the Hong Kong we used to know is gone now. After a year of protests and a dreadful response from the authority, the polar

Canada-China Relations committee  Okay. Thank you so much. Is it better now?

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you so much. With the draconian national security law, Beijing has the arbitrary power to detain, arrest and prosecute any political activists or dissidents they don't like. Carrie Lam says that the law is only intended to target violent protesters. That is a blatant lie.

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you so much for your question. I think, first of all, that we need to deal with consensus. Consensus-building is the most important way to push for political changes. I studied at Yale last year, and it was a period of time when Hong Kong was having a massive movement.

Canada-China Relations committee  I'm sorry about that. Last year we saw the consensus-building process in the U.S. across political aisles, which made the Hong Kong issue one of the very few topics that both parties could agree on and then process in a traumatic space. I've been doing international advocacy wo

Canada-China Relations committee  Sorry about that. I was talking about boycotting the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in order to create a more consequence-based relationship with them, rather then just letting them do whatever they want. I think that building up alliances with the other liberal democracies and cr

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you. Yes, definitely; I think it's especially for activists like me. I have been engaging in political activism for around six years, and I've been avoiding going to places where their relationship with China is quite friendly. Thailand is one of the places. For me, it's c

Canada-China Relations committee  Yes, indeed under the Magnitsky act, we are all hoping that these sanctions do apply to the Chinese officials. For now it isn't the case. We're trying to put forward that enactment in order to really hold these Chinese officials accountable. I believe a similar sanctions mechanis

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you once again for your question. I think the foreign minister has also talked about it, and they have considered it, and they have not said that it is impossible. For me, a continual dialogue with them is crucial, and I hope this could be done in the future for the second

Canada-China Relations committee  After a series of disqualifications of the Cantonese running for the council and parliamentarians over the past number of years, I believe that the Hong Kong people already view the legislative council as merely a puppet council of the Chinese government because the Hong Kong peo

Canada-China Relations committee  I think for now at least it isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future because Beijing still does not target massive numbers of people. But other than an exit plan, concrete help for those individuals in Hong Kong, Canadian Hong Kongers, is crucial so we should develop plan

Canada-China Relations committee  The simple answer is that I cannot go back to Hong Kong and I'm living a life of exile. From now on my life is committed to international advocacy work for the democratic movement of Hong Kong.

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you so much for the questions. I always say that I'm completely safe. We understand how far-reaching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party could be, so I try to—

Canada-China Relations committee  I'm sorry about that. I then also say that I'm completely safe, and we all understand how extensive China's reach can be. For the past couple of months since I left Hong Kong, I have been living a discrete life and trying to keep a low profile, so I didn't really appear at event

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair and other members of the committee, bonjour. I'm Nathan Law, a Hong Kong activist who was forced into exile under Beijing's tightening [Technical difficulty—Editor]. Thank you for having me today to give my testimony on the ongoing deterioration in Hong Kong. As a