All governments should join the countries that ban ‘organ tourism’ to China for transplant surgery. Any bilateral or multilateral agreement with Beijing must insist that this barbaric practice stop immediately, coupled with a mechanism whereby such stoppage is verifiable.
Demonstrators against the genocide of Uyghurs in China, pictured Feb. 22, 2021, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the day the House voted to declare Beijing’s ongoing persecution of its Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, including Uyghurs, to be a genocide. Photograph courtesy of David Kilgour
Canada’s House of Commons voted 266 to zero on Feb. 22 to declare Beijing’s ongoing persecution of its Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, including Uyghurs, to be a genocide within the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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Barring residents who haven’t been vaccinated from travelling to another province may be the unlikeliest of scenarios, but Prof. Krishnamurthy says he sees certificates being used to confer benefits to pass holders.
The political instinct is to ‘accept no risk’ when solving a problem, but that’s not how the ‘real world of medicine’ works, says former emergency-room doctor and Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski.
Last July, a landmark Federal Court ruling declared the 17-year-old refugee pact violated the Charter. Today, the appeal court disagreed, and so the treaty will remain in effect.
What is and isn’t considered a subsidy is politically charged. The government and industry are both likely to dispute or take issue with the inclusion of some, or many, of the programs to the group's tally.
While gaining a change in immigration status can be ‘transformational,’ the new policy does not go far enough as it excludes those not proficient in English or French, says one expert.
There are a 'whole series of very complicated questions that nobody is talking about,' says border expert Edward Alden on the lack of planning for an eventual border reopening.
New prescribed policies, procedures forced people to think about how they were acting, creating a 'profound' change in terms of staff understanding how they need to relate in the workplace, says the PMO's Marci Surkes.
'I think [the Canadian government] needs to demonstrate a stronger case that there is a real security problem and it has never been able to do so,' says former diplomat Daniel Livermore.