The Crow s Nest Olympic Facility in Beijing, China. Photo: Canadian Olympic Committee
The Federal Conservatives are calling on the Canadian government to reconsider their plans for the 2022 Bejing Winter Olympics.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is condemning the event citing China’s troubling record on human rights as a cause for concern.
“Today, I call on Justin Trudeau to actively seek the relocation of the 2022 Olympic Games. Canada should not be sending athletes to China in the middle of a genocide,” O’Toole said.
O’Tooles’ statement did not shy away from accusing the Chinese government of wrongdoings, “I think Canadians would agree that it would violate fundamental ethical principles to participate in an Olympic Games hosted by a country that is committing a genocide against part of its population.”
February 6, 2021
TORONTO, Canada
Thirteen lawmakers from Canada’s five federal parties asked the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Beijing Winter Games to another country because of China’s human rights violations against the Turkic Uighur minority.
“We have a unique opportunity to come together with all the world’s humanitarians and democrats and take action by refusing to participate in this global sports festival,” read a letter that was initiated by Bloc Quebecois lawmaker Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, vice-chair of the parliamentary subcommittee.
It said participating in the Games would mean “taking part in a sinister, self-aggrandizing spectacle” that is held for the benefit of a regime, which is committing the worst crimes against humanity and its own people.
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MONTREAL On October 21, 2020, the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights released the following statement: “The Subcommittee unequivocally condemns the persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang by the Government of China. Based on the evidence put forward during the Subcommittee hearings, both in 2018 and 2020, the subcommittee is persuaded that the actions of the Chinese Communist Party constitute genocide as laid out in the Genocide Convention.” We realize that in these difficult times, when the entire planet is facing the worst public health and economic crisis in over a century, human rights are not front of mind.