Experts warn that Canadians are unknowingly complicit in Beijing’s human rights abuses due to federal and provincial government investments in Chinese firms that support the communist regime’s repression.
A recent report from the UK-based NGO Hong Kong Watch said that at least three federal and six provincial pension funds—including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)—have invested in Morgan Stanley indices that include 12 Chinese companies involved in forced labour and internment campaigns targeting the Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang Province.
“China is now using advanced technology surveillance equipment against the Uyghur people, but also in Tibet, Mongolia, and against members of Christian house churches across China,” Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, told the House Canada-China committee on Dec. 6….