Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says her department is aware of and “closely following” the recent attack on a Falun Gong practitioner who was protesting outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto.
“Global Affairs Canada is aware of, and closely [f]ollowing, the troubling incident that occurred on September 22, 2026, involving a peaceful Falun Gong protester on the sidewalk outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto,” Anand wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to Conservative MP Jacob Mantle.
Videos of the attack show a man wearing a jacket bearing a patch of a Chinese flag attacking Falun Gong practitioners Lina Li and Nora Geng outside the consulate on Sept. 22. The two were standing on a public sidewalk outside the consulate with a banner display that raised awareness about the Chinese communist regime’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline….