Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chiu, for the question. It's very important and I think there seems to be two elements to it. One is the mounting risks Canadians are facing here in Canada. I would reiterate the comments I made about the report that, on behalf of the Canadian Coalition

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair—

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's certainly a pleasure to be with the special committee this afternoon or this morning, for any of you who are out west, and to join with my two wonderful colleagues. There have obviously been many troubling chapters along the road that have

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much for that opportunity, Ms. McPherson. The final two comments were very much focused on individual places of concern. I think there is obviously a need for strong multilateral action. There is the need to be working at the United Nations. There is the need to

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, I guess I have to qualify that I'm not in a position to be able to give my own personal views about that by virtue of my position as secretary general of Amnesty International Canada. What I can say is that Amnesty—and this would be at the global level—has not yet taken a

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would very much echo the important comments that Irwin highlighted. I think that whenever we have debates about responsibility to protect, a lot of the focus goes to the end of that continuum, this notion of armed intervention, sending in the troops to respond to a situation of

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There are two other recommendations with respect to reunification, and the Huseyin Celil case. Thank you.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. This subcommittee's study of the staggering human rights crisis faced by Uighurs in China's western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is welcome and urgently needed. The crisis is,of course, not new. China's unrelenting repression of the Uighur

Justice committee  I would say there's some danger in leaving it only or primarily to communities to do this themselves. There will be resource constraints. There will be fearfulness factors. There will be all sorts of things that stand in the way of that. I would say that government has a role to

Justice committee  Certainly. I wasn't commissioned by Amnesty, but it was carried out by Amnesty.

Justice committee  It was a study that focused on the gendered dimensions of violence in the world of Twitter, called “Toxic Twitter”.

Justice committee  Sure. I'll be very frank in admitting that Amnesty International sometimes makes use of that.

Justice committee  We don't have the resources that most others do, so it's a little boost on Facebook, but that's sometimes an essential part of also getting positive messages out there. I think that as a wider strategy around tackling online hate goes forward, that is a key aspect of it. The str

Justice committee  We think this is something worth exploring. We recognize, and don't disagree with, the concerns about how some cases proceeded in the past. This is not the past; this is today. The realities around online hate are different than they were even five or six years ago when section

Justice committee  Yes, is the short answer. I couldn't agree more. I think that to frame it as media literacy is very important. I think we probably would all agree that even before the advent of social media, media literacy was always underplayed and overlooked in our education system. Even whe