For years the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) called for an international accountability mechanism for mass atrocities and for sanctions to be placed on Sri Lanka. Yet, last week, they met and posed for photographs with the man who bears chief responsibility for those very massacres. Tamil Canadians across the political spectrum, and the country, are furious.
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The Canadian government has recently imposed a flurry of sanctions against Russian and Chinese individuals, and in the case of the latter, an entity the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau. This is a historic step in Canadian sanctions policy and welcome news in demonstrating Canada’s willingness to fight human rights abuses around the world.
However, the question remains as to why Canada continues to resist using the Magnitsky Act against human rights violators. In failing to implement it, our government is signalling that it is content with simply undertaking cursory actions when individual freedoms are attacked.
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