Large western corporations that are making money in China are contributing to democratic governments’ neglect of the communist regime’s continued human rights violations, Sen. Leo Housakos said on June 6.
Housakos called on the Liberal government to ban imports of goods made with forced labour by Uyghur Muslims in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang. He was joined at a press conference by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, U.S. professional basketball star and human rights defender Enes Kanter Freedom, and Sarah Teich, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Housakos was asked why the world acted quickly to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, yet allows communist China to infringe on the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, trample on Hong Kong’s democratic system, threaten the self-ruled island of Taiwan, and violate international laws….