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mimi lee
Markham, Ontario
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Mimi Lee is one of the main organizers of Torontonian HongKongers Action Group , which the group has been organizing different events since June last year in Toronto to raise awareness and support the current pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong started by the extradition to China bill fiasco. Since 2012, she has been awakened by the Moral and National Education controversy in Hong Kong, and realized that Hong Kong has been going downhill for so many years since the handover in 1997. After the Umbrella Movement in 2014, it has encouraged her to do a lot more than just supporting Hong Kong, but actually involved in different initiatives raising awareness of the situation of Hong Kong.

 

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Petition to the Government of Canada in control of information locally

March 25, 2021
  • Canada had outsourced its visa application processing to VFS Global, a company with notable links to the Chinese Government;
  • VFS Global’s use of the Beijing city police as a subcontractor for a Visa Application Center (VAC) raises serious concerns about the security of information being provided through the VAC;
  • The federal government was aware of all VFS Global subcontractors when the contract was signed in 2012, and renewed in 2018; and
  • It is dangerous and naive to pass on our immigration information to any foreign governments, further to one that has been identified as a threat to Canada's national security.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Revoke the contract to outsource Canada's VAC services to VFS Global and return the control of information directly into the hands of the Government of Canada;
2. Create immigration measures with a humanitarian approach with specific provisions for Hong Kongers facing persecution for their pro-democracy views; and
3. Work with allied countries to impose Magnitsky sanctions to the Chinese government in response to human rights abuses.

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