Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, in Hong Kong mobile phones and e-mails being hacked or monitored by some of the pro-Beijing people is quite normal. If in daily life you don't have everything open and public, actually there's not really a problem. For most of the students, I think the challenge we face now is whether or not all the students who joined the students councils in different universities, or who participated in the Umbrella Movement—some as volunteers with Scholarism just giving out leaflets, who don't have experience in joining civil disobedience—can go back to mainland China anymore.

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you mean the student organizations' support for the mainland China movement or the mainland China people's support for the student movement?

Foreign Affairs committee  For the new generation, most of them know the technique of how to break through the firewall and to assess the information. Even in the posts related to the Umbrella Movement, they still can find their own way or method to rate or assess the information. The problem is that in the Umbrella Movement, we can't see the mainland China students who directly show their support.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would like to add one point on why nearly half of the Hong Kong citizens would still support the political reform package under the unequal decision made by the Communist party on August 31 last year. It's because the government would actually give the right to every person to vote in the next election.

Foreign Affairs committee  Honourable chair and honourable members of the standing committee, I am Joshua Wong, the convenor of Scholarism and now an 18-year-old university student. Thank you for the Canadian Parliament’s invitation giving me the opportunity to be one of the Hong Kong representatives here.