Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mike MacPherson, the clerk of the committee, has emailed me the five points that comprise the committee's study on critical minerals under Standing Order 108(2). This afternoon I would like to address points one and three. Point one is how can we best pr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We need to stop that contract as soon as possible. The idea that subcontracting out cheaper is a good idea for immigration is a false economy. We need to have this based on Canadians, protecting the data through Canadian servers and Canadian diplomatic facilities, as opposed to a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Laughable.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I think so. Having served as a Canadian diplomat in Beijing in the past, I know this has been done in rare cases of urgency. The situation in Hong Kong is a case of urgency that requires these kinds of special measures on the part of our consular officials.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And what more Canadian thing could we be doing, in terms of our Canadian values, than providing refuge for people who are committed to democracy and human rights, and are suffering because of their democratic beliefs?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, the idea that we send people back to Hong Kong where they could be subject to arrest and possible transmission to China is something we don't want to do. It was a policy that worked well in 1989, and our policy of minister's permits brought a lot of Chinese activists

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to see Magnitsky sanctions imposed against those who have been complicit in the disgraceful political persecution of Hong Kong democracy and freedom activists in Hong Kong. There are a lot of officials of the Chinese regime who have considerable assets in Canada, w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that we see this over and over again with Chinese regime-associated companies that offer very competitive bids to win contracts for things like Nuctech's installation of security equipment in our 170 embassies around the world, or the very reasonable and competitive p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With regard to all things in terms of meeting the challenge of China's flouting of the international rules-based order, I think that Canada is lagging behind all of our Five Eyes partners and like-minded nations. Certainly the British have been recently good in reviving the Briti

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could I answer that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the fact that the Hong Kong authorities have been seizing the travel documents of Hong Kong persons who have been subject to police incarceration indicates that they don't want them to be able to leave Hong Kong. It's a very serious issue. I would hope that our government

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I quite agree with you. I was looking at a video of 82-year-old Martin Lee, a hero of Hong Kong democracy for many decades, walking from a Hong Kong court. Can we not get Mr. Lee here to safety in Canada? He has such a close connection to our country and to the Hong Kong com

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I've read the evidence given by the highly articulate and insightful witnesses at the first part of this meeting and at the previous two meetings. I have read the three briefs that were given to the committee by Alliance Canada Hong Kong, Canada-Hong Kong

Government Operations committee  Yes, the argument that's made on Senator Yuen Pau Woo's website, that Canada does not need this comparable legislation because we don't have those sorts of issues going on and that our existing arrangements are already fully able to address problems of retired officials who recei

Government Operations committee  I'm not aware of the contract that you're talking about, but on the face of it, it strikes me as completely nuts to give a company subservient to the Chinese Communist Party control over critical infrastructure like port facilities. If we've agreed to such a thing, I think we sho