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Right Honourable Prime Minister, Canada’s efforts to prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict is greatly appreciated. Your statement on the 12th of February 2021 reaffirming Canada’s commitment to draw attention to this inhumane practice with the longstanding intent of ending such conscription along with nearly 100 UN Member States endorsing the Vancouver Principles on ‘Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers’ is most commendable. The Late, Honourable Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s former distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs too devoted a great deal of time in campaigning for the same laudable objectives and also canvassing international support towards the aims envisioned in the Vancouver Principles and peace in Sri Lanka. He was unfortunately gunned down on August 12, 2005, by a sniper belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which group was designated as an international terrorist mo
Posted on February 14th, 2021
Mahinda Gunasekera Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9
Dear Madam Jean Yip,
MP Gary Anandasangaree’s baseless campaign to push for a Mono-Ethnic Separate State in the North and East of Sri Lanka I am a resident of Scarborough-Agincourt for the past 38 years having migrated to Canada in 1975. I understand that MP Gary Anandasangaree who is a member of the Liberal Party caucus has arranged a Zoom meeting for parliamentarians on the 10th of February to canvass support for a resolution on Sri Lanka aimed at establishing a Mono-Ethnic Separate State encompassing 35 percent of the island’s land area and 60 percent of the coastline and adjacent territorial waters for Tamils numbering approximately