Global News VIDEO: UBC under fire after renting space to Hong Kong
Parliament VIDEO: Jenny tables a petition in solidarity with Hong Kong political prisoners and pro-democracy movement
Click this link to watch the video:
https://youtu.be/2q1Kp2Jdmp8?si=C7N3GjPn4WG2cjF2
Debates of Nov. 19th, 2024
House of Commons Hansard #368 of the 44th Parliament, 1st Session
Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP): Madam Speaker, I rise to table the petition, E-Petition 5137. The petition gathered 3,497 signatures. In addition on a previous occasion I tabled a similar petition that had 152 signatures on it. And then there are another 717 that is to be certified from Toronto, another 247 signatures to be certified from Vancouver for a total of 4,613.
The petitioner notes that on August 12, 2024, Hong Kong's top court upheld the convictions of seven of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists, including 82-year-old Martin Lee and 76-year-old Jimmy Lai, for participating in a peaceful demonstration on August 18 of 2019.
The group of 47, which includes legislators, were found guilty on May 30, 2024 in the exercise of their democratic rights for participating in the election primaries. Chow Hang-tung and former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance have been arrested for holding annual candlelight vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
Given the extraterritorial reach of the national security law in Article 23 there is ongoing fear of surveillance amongst the Hong Kong diaspora, and in light of the recent spying charges laid against staff at the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office in the United Kingdom, Hong Kongers want to be reassured that this is not happening in Canada.
Therefore, they are calling on the government of Canada to call on Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China to release Jimmy Lai, Chow Hang-tung, the group of 47 and others, whose only crime was to exercise their rights and freedoms as prescribed by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and to stop according any special rights of diplomatic status to the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office; and finally, to proactively apply sanctions under the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act against Chinese and Hong Kong officials.
Latest posts
CPAC VIDEO: NDP, labour presser call on Liberals to abolish closed work permits
NDP MPs Make Announcement on Migrant Workers in Canada – November 7, 2024
At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Jenny Kwan, the NDP critic for immigration, refugees and citizenship, and Matthew Green, the NDP critic for labour, discuss their party’s plan aimed at ending the exploitation of migrant workers in Canada. They are joined by Elizabeth Kwan (Canadian Labour Congress) and Derek Johnstone (United Food and Commercial Workers). (no interpretation)
CBC News VIDEO: B.C.'s majority female legislature brings back memories of 1991 election's record-breaking moment
B.C. voters have elected a majority female legislature for the first time in the province's history, with 49 of 93 legislative seats now occupied by women. It's a big step forward from 1991, when a then record-breaking seven female cabinet ministers were appointed. We talked to BC NDP MLA Jenny Kwan who spent 19 years as the representative for what was then known as Vancouver Mount Pleasant. She's now the MP for Vancouver East. We asked her what she makes of the majority-female legislature, and her time in the chamber.