When Michael Prue first learned about the persecution campaign against Falun Gong adherents in China soon after it was launched 24 years ago, he felt he should help any way he could.
Prue, now the mayor of Amherstburg in Ontario, has been a strong advocate for Falun Gong ever since.
“[The launch of the persecution] had only just made the newspapers, and they were in my office,” Prue told The Epoch Times, referring to local Falun Gong adherents who had visited him at his office at Toronto City Hall when he was a city councillor.
“God bless them. They were not letting this pass by, and I was there to listen to them. And what I said, I still hold true.”…