CBC Power & Politics
“Shining a light on a few bad apples is not enough to overturn the apple cart … Our worry is that people in charge are hiding behind the racism shield in terms of deflecting the issue “
CBC National News
Investigation and registry will bring up anti-Chinese, anti-Asian sentiment “plays straightly into the playbook of the Chinese Communist Party … By having an open inquiry … will help ourselves as victims of Chinese interference.”
Opening Remarks: ETHI Meeting No. 61
To The House Of Commons Standing Committee
On Access To Information, Privacy And Ethics
On The Study Of Foreign Interference And Threats To The Integrity Of Democratic Institutions, Intellectual Property And The Canadian State
By Cheuk Kwan, Co-Chair
Toronto Association for Democracy in China
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Toronto AM640
Cheuk, TADC spokesperson and past chair, spoke with Alex Pierson on radio this morning
Star Feature
Chinese interference in Canada? Chinese Canadians say they reported it for years — and were ignored
With PM Trudeau reportedly set to ask for a new investigation of foreign interference in Canada, advocates recall all the incidents and evidence that has gotten little apparent action over the years.
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A panel of experts discusses the need for Canada to adopt a foreign agent registry, to deter foreign interference attempts.
Disappearance of Dong Guangping: Government of Vietnam Must Respond to UN Human Rights Experts
February 14, 2023
Reacting to news that the government of Vietnam has failed to respond to urgent questions from three independent United Nations experts seeking clarification about the fate and whereabouts of her father, disappeared Chinese human rights defender Dong Guangping, Katherine Dong said that,
The government of Vietnam continues to torment my family, by refusing to explain why they arrested my father almost six months ago, and what has happened to him since. I had hoped he would be safely reunited with us here in Canada by now, instead we are left to agonize about his safety. We don’t even know where he is. They won’t answer my questions. They won’t answer questions posed by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada. Now they refuse to answer the United Nations. This is unacceptable and an affront to international law. Vietnamese officials must answer our simple question, ‘where is Dong Guangping?’
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