Hundreds of people from a spiritual group that has long been targeted for persecution by the Chinese regime held a rally on Dec. 8 in downtown Toronto ahead of Parliament’s third reading of a bill that would ban the crime of forced organ harvesting.
Adherents of Falun Gong, a meditative practice based on Buddhist traditions, held the rally in support of Bill S-223, which would make it a criminal offence for a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to travel abroad to receive an organ taken from someone who did not give informed consent.
The bill would also amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to prevent a permanent resident or foreign national from entering Canada if they are complicit in activities relating to human organ trafficking….