Tag: act of genocide

Federal Court Rejects Uyghur Group’s Lawsuit Against Ottawa Over Inaction on Beijing’s Abuses

A Federal Court has struck down an application from a Uyghur rights group that sought to sue the federal government over its lack of action on Beijing’s human rights atrocities against the Uyghur minority population in China. The petition also sought to gain formal recognition that China’s internment of its Uyghur population is an act of…


Motion Calls on Ottawa to Recognize Beijing’s Coercion of Overseas Uyghurs to Return to China

Following Parliament’s declaration of China’s repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as genocide, a Liberal MP is introducing a motion to call on the federal government to further provide support to members of this minority group who fled the country but continue to face intimidation from the regime. In February 2021, parliamentarians voted unanimously…


More Than Half of Canadians Support Boycotting 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Survey

With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics just months away, a new survey shows more than half of Canadians support boycotting the event to be hosted by the Chinese communist regime. A total of 64 percent of respondents said they would support or somewhat support a Canadian boycott of the Beijing Olympics “because of tensions between…