Canadian institutions and corporations must not be complicit in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) effort to delegitimize and oppress Taiwan, Conservative MP Michael Cooper says. Members of the Taiwanese community in Canada have recently made complaints to Cooper that they were forced to indicate “Taiwan, Province of China” when specifying their nationality in applications to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP). The label is in line with Beijing’s “One China policy,” which—unlike the version adopted by Canada and other Western democracies—indicates that Taiwan is part of the communist-controlled territory of mainland China, despite the regime never having ruled the self-governing island. “It would be nice if it was simply a matter of being misinformed about Canada’s ‘One China policy,’ in which case the response would be to correct the mislabelling of Taiwan,” Cooper said. “But with regards to an institution …
Canadian Government Agencies and Corporations Should Not be Complicit in CCP’s Claim Over Taiwan: Tory MP
December 8, 2021
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