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{
    "time": "2022-10-24 16:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Judy A. Sgro (Humber River\u2014Black Creek, Lib.)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Judy A. Sgro (Humber River\u2014Black Creek, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7358392\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I am pleased to present this petition, especially following the discussion by my colleague on his concurrence motion pertaining to things that many of us in the House care about and would like to see an end to.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canadian lawyer David Matas and former Canadian secretary of state for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour conducted an investigation and concluded that the Chinese regime and its agencies throughout China had put to death a large number, in the tens of thousands, of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs were seized involuntarily for sale at a higher price. Therefore, the petitioners request the Canadian Parliament and government pass a resolution to establish measures to stop the Chinese Communist regime's crime of systemically murdering Falun Gong practitioners for their organs, to amend Canadian legislation to combat forced organ harvesting and to publicly call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7358392\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je suis heureuse de pr\u00e9senter la p\u00e9tition suivante, surtout apr\u00e8s la motion d'adoption du d\u00e9put\u00e9, concernant des choses qui tiennent \u00e0 c\u0153ur \u00e0 beaucoup de d\u00e9put\u00e9s et que beaucoup aimeraient voir cesser.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358393\" data-originallang=\"en\"> L'avocat canadien David Matas et l'ancien secr\u00e9taire d'\u00c9tat canadien pour l'Asie-Pacifique David Kilgour ont fait enqu\u00eate et ont conclu que le r\u00e9gime chinois et ses agences partout en Chine avaient mis \u00e0 mort des prisonniers de conscience du mouvement Falun Gong par dizaines de milliers. Les organes vitaux de ces prisonniers ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9lev\u00e9s contre leur gr\u00e9 et revendus au prix fort. Par cons\u00e9quent, les p\u00e9titionnaires prient le Parlement et le gouvernement canadiens d'adopter une r\u00e9solution en vue de prendre des mesures pour faire cesser le meurtre syst\u00e9matique par le r\u00e9gime communiste chinois d\u2019adeptes du Falun Gong afin de pr\u00e9lever leurs organes, de modifier les lois canadiennes de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 combattre le pr\u00e9l\u00e8vement forc\u00e9 d\u2019organes et de demander publiquement que cesse la pers\u00e9cution du Falun Gong en Chine.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/10/24/judy-sgro-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/judy-sgro/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4375/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11875389",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires Courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Petitions",
        "fr": "P\u00e9titions"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Falun Gong",
        "fr": "Le Falun Gong"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2022/10/24/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F10%2F24%2F"
    }
}