Parliamentarians call for audit of personal, financial connections Hong Kong officials may have in Canada

Canada and other like-minded partners need to hold Hong Kong officials to account for their role in the ongoing crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement and numerous human rights violations, according to advocacy group Hong Kong Watch.

Liberal MP John McKay, left, Conservative MP and his party's defence critic James Bezan, right. Mr. Bezan said he will always stand with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

July 1, 2021

Just days before the one-year mark since China implemented a national security law for Hong Kong, a group of 20 Parliamentarians wrote Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau asking the government to audit the financial and personal connections that Hong Kong officials have in Canada. The letter, dat...

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