One of the directors of an organization that recently held a protest in Ottawa previously met with an official of China’s lead agency in charge of foreign influence, the United Front Work Department (UFWD). Key organizers of the protest have rallied some people in local Chinese Canadian communities to oppose the proposed creation of a foreign agent registry in Canada.
The group behind the June 24 protest on Parliament Hill, the Commission of Marking the 100th Anniversary of Chinese Exclusion Act, is a federally incorporated not-for-profit created on May 1.
A day earlier, Zhang Jian, one of its directors, had attended a meeting of the Council of Newcomer Organizations where he encouraged the Chinese community to participate in the June 24 rally. He also attended a Zoom meeting on May 10, titled in Chinese, “From the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act to the e-4395 petition,” to promote the parliamentary petition (e-4395) that opposes Canada’s proposed foreign agent registry….