‘It has to be a wake-up call’: advocates press Ottawa to develop scheme to offer refuge to Hong Kong activists

'We have to look at the national security legislation in its full, broad consequential impacts, and see it against the backdrop as part of a state-sanctioned, state-orchestrated, CCP [Chinese Communist Party] assault on the global, rules-based order,' says Irwin Cotler.

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured Feb. 6, 2020, is fielding calls from the Canadian Hong Kong community to develop a scheme to provide refuge to at-risk activists in Hong Kong. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

July 20, 2020

As the fallout over Beijing’s imposition of a sweeping national security law plays out, and fears grow over its implications, one expert says he expects the government to take a “wait-and-see approach” in responding to calls for it

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