Canada Promised for Receiving Hong Kong teenagers, but two Large Opposition Parties Call on Trudeau to Do More
After over a year of the Hong Kong “anti-extradition law” protest, the Canadian government finally introduced policies to assist Hongkongers immigrating to Canada. However, the new policies are mainly targeting at students, disappointing many Canadian opposition lawmakers who have been running around for Hongkongers. New Democratic Party member of Parliament Jenny Kwan described that the Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau was slow to respond, and the new policies are not favourable to Hongkongers who intend to apply for refugees. The opposition Conservative Party member Raquel Dancho requested the government that they should sanction the Chinese and Hong Kong officials who harm the Hong Kong human rights.
Canada introduced “resettlement policy for Hongkongers” on last Thursday (12th November), the Hong Kong teenagers who graduated in universities in the past five years can apply for a three-years Canada working visa. Teenagers only require to work for a year and to pass the language test for permanent residency application. However, there is no specific implementation date or timetable yet.
Jenny Kwan, a New Democratic Party Member who born in Hong Kong and migrated to Canada when she was 9, said that after the abolishment of opposition members of Hong Kong Legislative Council, the situation in Hong Kong has deteriorated. However, Trudeau only “announced” the policies launch five months after promising to help Hongkongers that the response was slow and felt very disappointed with that. “The implementation of the plan, which mainly focuses on helping students, will have to wait until next year. The Immigration Minister did not provide details nor mention whether the plan will help the teenagers who have been prosecuted by the National Security Law”.
Source from: Apple Daily #Nov19
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201119/LNJGTOBY5VBR5BP6IOYBPQEICA/
#Canada #China #HongKong #Migrant #AntiELAB #LegCoMember #ParliamentMember #Trudeau #JennyKwan #NationalSecurityLaw
After over a year of the Hong Kong “anti-extradition law” protest, the Canadian government finally introduced policies to assist Hongkongers immigrating to Canada. However, the new policies are mainly targeting at students, disappointing many Canadian opposition lawmakers who have been running around for Hongkongers. New Democratic Party member of Parliament Jenny Kwan described that the Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau was slow to respond, and the new policies are not favourable to Hongkongers who intend to apply for refugees. The opposition Conservative Party member Raquel Dancho requested the government that they should sanction the Chinese and Hong Kong officials who harm the Hong Kong human rights.
Canada introduced “resettlement policy for Hongkongers” on last Thursday (12th November), the Hong Kong teenagers who graduated in universities in the past five years can apply for a three-years Canada working visa. Teenagers only require to work for a year and to pass the language test for permanent residency application. However, there is no specific implementation date or timetable yet.
Jenny Kwan, a New Democratic Party Member who born in Hong Kong and migrated to Canada when she was 9, said that after the abolishment of opposition members of Hong Kong Legislative Council, the situation in Hong Kong has deteriorated. However, Trudeau only “announced” the policies launch five months after promising to help Hongkongers that the response was slow and felt very disappointed with that. “The implementation of the plan, which mainly focuses on helping students, will have to wait until next year. The Immigration Minister did not provide details nor mention whether the plan will help the teenagers who have been prosecuted by the National Security Law”.
Source from: Apple Daily #Nov19
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201119/LNJGTOBY5VBR5BP6IOYBPQEICA/
#Canada #China #HongKong #Migrant #AntiELAB #LegCoMember #ParliamentMember #Trudeau #JennyKwan #NationalSecurityLaw
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"Gravely Concerning": Canadian MPs Urge Ottawa to Condemn Hong Kong Government Naming Vancouver Editor on "Wanted List"
In a letter to the government, two Canadian MPs asked Foreign Minister Melanie Joly to publicly oppose Hong Kong government’s action of putting Victor Ho, a former newspaper editor living in Vancouver, on a “wanted list” for suspected subversion of state power.
“We find this gravely concerning. Mr. Ho is a Canadian citizen, living in Canada. This is an intrusion on Mr. Ho’s legal rights, and any application of the National Security Law is a direct attack on this fundamental freedom of thought, belief, opinion, expression and assembly as protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” wrote #HeatherMcPherson, MP for Edmonton-Strathcona, and #JennyKwan, MP for Vancouver-East.
On July 27, Ho joined other activists at a news conference in Toronto to announce the formation of an electoral organizing committee for a Hong Kong “parliament in exile” that would oppose Beijing’s continued clampdown on political freedoms.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/33055
A week later, the Hong Kong government’s security bureau said on its website that it “severely condemns” Ho and two others from the news conference, and that, on the basis of Hong Kong’s #NationalSecurityLaw, “police shall spare no efforts in pursuing the cases in … order to bring the offenders to justice.”
Source: Sing Tao Canada; #Aug16
https://www.singtao.ca/5969146/2022-08-16/post-shorten/&refer=toronto#.YwQAldBbbxk.link
#AntiELAB #VictorHo #GovernmentInExile
"Gravely Concerning": Canadian MPs Urge Ottawa to Condemn Hong Kong Government Naming Vancouver Editor on "Wanted List"
In a letter to the government, two Canadian MPs asked Foreign Minister Melanie Joly to publicly oppose Hong Kong government’s action of putting Victor Ho, a former newspaper editor living in Vancouver, on a “wanted list” for suspected subversion of state power.
“We find this gravely concerning. Mr. Ho is a Canadian citizen, living in Canada. This is an intrusion on Mr. Ho’s legal rights, and any application of the National Security Law is a direct attack on this fundamental freedom of thought, belief, opinion, expression and assembly as protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” wrote #HeatherMcPherson, MP for Edmonton-Strathcona, and #JennyKwan, MP for Vancouver-East.
On July 27, Ho joined other activists at a news conference in Toronto to announce the formation of an electoral organizing committee for a Hong Kong “parliament in exile” that would oppose Beijing’s continued clampdown on political freedoms.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/33055
A week later, the Hong Kong government’s security bureau said on its website that it “severely condemns” Ho and two others from the news conference, and that, on the basis of Hong Kong’s #NationalSecurityLaw, “police shall spare no efforts in pursuing the cases in … order to bring the offenders to justice.”
Source: Sing Tao Canada; #Aug16
https://www.singtao.ca/5969146/2022-08-16/post-shorten/&refer=toronto#.YwQAldBbbxk.link
#AntiELAB #VictorHo #GovernmentInExile
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Oversea activists working on a Hong Kong Parliament
A group of oversea Hong Kong activists announced the Election Committee for the Hong Kong Parliament has been successfully formed on 27 July. They planned to organise a Hong Kong parliament member election…
A group of oversea Hong Kong activists announced the Election Committee for the Hong Kong Parliament has been successfully formed on 27 July. They planned to organise a Hong Kong parliament member election…