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Foreign Affairs committee Again, with regard to monetary value, we're dealing with price lists, which at one time were posted, but then were taken down when we quoted them. That was 12 years ago, so the prices, presumably, have gone up since then. There are negotiations now at various hospitals about a pr
April 24th, 2018Committee meeting
David Matas
Foreign Affairs committee They have so many prisoners of conscience in arbitrary detention that the supply is infinite. In terms of the way they can operate, the constraints on the system have been beds and staff, but not organ supplies. What you've seen in China since they started sourcing for organs is
April 24th, 2018Committee meeting
David Matas
Foreign Affairs committee No. There's what I would call a lot of “willful blindness”. The voice of the Chinese transplant system in China is Huang Jiefu. There's a transcript of an interview where he says that he once went to see what was going on with this—the sourcing authorities, because the extracti
April 24th, 2018Committee meeting
David Matas
Foreign Affairs committee Of course, the Chinese government doesn't publish statistics about this. It does produce statistics about organ donation volumes, and it does produce statistics about sources, but as far as I can see, they're just made-up figures. They don't match what we're able to determine thr
April 24th, 2018Committee meeting
David Matas
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you for inviting me. On the general subject of Canada's engagement in Asia, I want to focus on something specific, Canada's engagement with China. Even within that subject, I want to address something particular—the form engagement by Canada with China should take in light
April 24th, 2018Committee meeting
David Matas