Canada Tibet Committee

"Tibetan-Canadian Chemi Lhamo shares how, in sharp contrast to the intimidation she has faced for speaking out, people are also rewarded for being outspokenly supportive of China. She describes trips to luxury department store Holt Renfrew as being among the incentives offered to publicly pro-CCP individuals. "

"The report claims that coercive labour transfer schemes are just one part of the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign to dilute Tibetan identity through implementing a programme of ideological indoctrination beginning at childhood, the restructuring of rural economies, and a systematic intensification of data-driven policing and surveillance." https://ipac.global/report-reveals-chinas-new-coercive-cra/

"For the sake of Tibetan and Uyghur lives, it is imperative that Canada takes a pass on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics," write Sherap Therchin and Anvesh Jain.

"The Ontario Parliamentary Friends of Tibet (OPFT) is thrilled to announce that the successful summer youth program is coming back for a second year!"

In this latest edition of Canada's leading public policy think tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Inside Policy, CTC director Sherap Therchin, and the Research Associate Anvesh Jain write about the increased repression and persecution of Tibetan people since Beijing Olympic 2008 and call upon the Canadian government to boycott Beijing Olympics 2022. "Since 2008, the CCP has pursued even more repressive measures against Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and in othe...r Tibetan areas outside the TAR. These include increased surveillance of Tibetan communities and the coercive insertion of the state into all aspects of Tibetan life. Buddhist monasteries have been subjugated to the administrative control of Chinese authorities, while efforts to promote Tibetan language have been curtailed and instead replaced with pro-government indoctrinating curricula." See more

Marking one year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the UBC Himalaya Program is hosting a virtual roundtable discussion with four members of the Tibetan-Canadian community to reflect on how they have responded with care to the pandemic.

The horrifying case of Lhamo, one of the many disturbing cases of domestic violence reported in China, reflects the failure of China’s legal system in protecting women against domestic violence even when they repeatedly seek help, as Lhamo did.

Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne testifies at the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations

Finally, a journalist who's been paying attention to all three regions and sees a common pattern. "In Tibet, Buddhism has been roughly shoved in the direction of Sinicisation, making it more Chinese, and more beholden to the Chinese state. A premium has been placed on Chinese language instruction, effectively forcing Tibetan to at best second-class status within schools. And even those pushing for moderate reforms, such as Tashi Wangchuk, have been rounded up and jailed."

Dans le cadre d'une étude en cours sur les questions liées à la Chine par le Comité parlementaire sur les relations sino-canadiennes, M. Shawn Steil, directeur général, Politique et coordination de la Chine élargie (Affaires mondiales Canada), a témoigné sur le Tibet devant le comité le 17 novembre. http://www.tibet.ca/fr/library/media_releases/473

The testimony covered a wide range of topics including Canada’s growing concerns over the increased crackdowns on Tibetan people in the last decade, the lack of reliable information coming from within Tibet, and the difficulties faced by foreign diplomats in their efforts to visit the area in person, Canada’s position on the status of Tibet, Middle Way Approach and the Central Tibetan Administration, and specific issues such as forced labour and resettlement of Tibetan nomads, as well as Chinese interference in Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay’s visit to Ottawa. Full report: http://tibet.ca/en/library/media_releases/473

Joint press release: "We are also deeply troubled by the longstanding and worsening efforts, carried out by individuals and organizations that are led, backed or encouraged by the Chinese government, to harass and intimidate human rights defenders from our communities here in Canada. We reiterate our calls for the Canadian government to prioritize concern for human rights in our relationship with China."