Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. It is a long list, and we have been passing this information to our government officials since the early 2000s. For example, I'm a Canadian citizen, but I'm a Uighur Canadian, and you are also a Canadian citizen and a holder of the same passport. If the one Uighur Can

Information & Ethics committee  The Communist regime in Beijing is not a democratically elected regime. That regime is not accountable to its people. It acts like a criminal organization. For that regime, it is important to keep the Uighurs and the other people under their control, and for that reason, they ta

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning to everyone. Thanks for this invitation. My name is Mehmet Tohti, and I call myself a lifelong activist. I currently work as executive director of the Ottawa-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project. As a leading voice of Uighur Canadians, we do r

Canada-China Relations committee  There are many witnesses who have already testified in this room. All of them agreed that Xi Jinping is unpredictable and that there's uncertainty in China right now. There are a lot of military activities going on in the Taiwan Strait for a reason. Also, if you look carefully at

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for this question. Yes, unfortunately, the deaths of 44 Uighurs—not 10—sparked a whole range of anger and uprising, I can say, in the whole of China. In more than 101 cities and 50 universities, people participated and people took to the streets. Some of them openly sa

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for that question. It is an excellent and eye-opening question and I hope that the Canada pension plan and other provincial plans, including the Quebec pension plan, will listen to this question. Yes, you are absolutely right. The Quebec pension plan has investments of

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for the question. As Professor Laura Murphy said, we are not acting. The government is not imposing the existing law, and so far CBSA has not seized a single shipment entering Canada of goods made using Uighur forced labour. We are strengthening the Chinese regime by

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you, members, for this opportunity. First of all, I apologize that my voice is muffled. Yesterday I shouted too much against the Chinese embassy and the University of Ottawa. I will be providing testimony on Canadian investments in the Uighur genocide

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  China wants to eliminate the Uighurs and to take our ancestral land. Uighurs want to keep our land and to keep our national identity. This is the struggle. If you ask all the Uighurs abroad, they want to go for an independent state. There is no way to live together with the peopl

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Dr. Turpie, go ahead.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  One thing Canada has done right in the international arena, just like the UN office in Geneva, it has frequently joined other western allies to raise the Uighur issue against the Chinese government. We talk about concrete action. We lack concrete action. We can follow the U.K.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I live in Mississauga, by the way. We've met a number of times.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for the question. Thank you for your support, first of all. As I said, we don't have a large population; from coast to coast to coast there are 1,500 Uighurs, not families. All of them are new immigrants. They have some language problems. They are barely getting by and

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. I think a number of our parliamentarians have on their personal websites a Uighur window, or an instant update on the situation of the Uighurs, and they post it on their own parliamentary or personal website. This is one way. Honourable David Kilgour, he has on his we

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In my opening, I just gave as examples three Canadians. I talked about the family members of three Canadians. None of them, none of their family members, have been released from the concentration camps. Arkin Kurban lives in Montreal, and 76 of his extended family members are sti