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{
"time": "2024-11-01 12:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Jenny Kwan (Vancouver-Est, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8665176\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table a petition from a group of concerned citizens who are raising an issue related to foreign interference and the plight of Hong Kongers in Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8665177\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The petitioners note that the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Canada enjoys diplomatic and immunity privileges. This is largely a result of the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d rule. Under the national security law in Hong Kong, basic rights and basic laws in Hong Kong no longer exists.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8665178\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners note that a senior employee of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the U.K. was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service in foreign interference matters contrary to various sections of the National Security Act. The petitioners further note that evidence was presented that the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the U.K. was directly involved in paying defendants to conduct hostile activities targeted at the Hong Kong diaspora in the U.K., which included hostile surveillance, acts of deception and forcing entry into a residential address.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8665179\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canada has been a safe haven for Hong Kongers fleeing political oppression since 2019, including Canadian-born pro-democracy lawmaker Dennis Kwok, who had been issued bounties by Hong Kong police for violating widely condemned Hong Kong national security laws. To that end, the petitioners are calling for the Canadian government to end the diplomatic privileges and immunity of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Canada.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8665176\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai le plaisir de pr\u00e9senter une p\u00e9tition sign\u00e9e par un groupe de citoyens inquiets qui soul\u00e8vent une question d'ing\u00e9rence \u00e9trang\u00e8re et le sort des Hongkongais au Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8665177\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires notent que le Bureau \u00e9conomique et commercial de Hong Kong au Canada jouit de privil\u00e8ges et d'immunit\u00e9s. C'est largement en raison du principe \u00ab un pays, deux syst\u00e8mes \u00bb. Selon la loi sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale \u00e0 Hong Kong, les droits et les lois de base \u00e0 Hong Kong n'existent plus.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8665178\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires indiquent qu'un employ\u00e9 de haut rang du Bureau \u00e9conomique et commercial de Hong Kong au Royaume\u2011Uni a \u00e9t\u00e9 accus\u00e9 d'aide \u00e0 un service de renseignement \u00e9tranger pour faire de l'ing\u00e9rence \u00e9trang\u00e8re, en violation de diverses dispositions de la loi sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale. Ils soulignent \u00e9galement l'existence de preuves voulant que le Bureau \u00e9conomique et commercial de Hong Kong au Royaume\u2011Uni ait \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 directement dans le paiement des personnes accus\u00e9es pour mener des activit\u00e9s hostiles visant la diaspora hongkongaise au Royaume\u2011Uni, notamment de la surveillance hostile, et l'entr\u00e9e par effraction dans une r\u00e9sidence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8665179\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Canada est un refuge pour les Hongkongais qui fuient l'oppression politique depuis 2019, dont Dennis Kwok, le l\u00e9gislateur pro-d\u00e9mocratie n\u00e9 au Canada, pour lequel la police de Hong Kong avait offert une prime, parce qu'il avait enfreint la loi sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale de Hong Kong, largement condamn\u00e9e. Par cons\u00e9quent, les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au gouvernement du Canada de retirer l'ensemble des privil\u00e8ges et des immunit\u00e9s accord\u00e9s au Bureau \u00e9conomique et commercial de Hong Kong au Canada.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/11/1/jenny-kwan-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jenny-kwan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4248/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12969038",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Diplomatic Relations",
"fr": "Les relations diplomatiques"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/11/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F11%2F1%2F"
}
}