If there is no direct response to end Beijing’s transnational repression targeting Shen Yun Performing Arts in Canada, foreign regimes will be emboldened to suppress artistic and religious freedom to the detriment of all Canadians, representatives of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada told a parliamentary committee.
The representatives made the remarks in response to questions from MPs on the House of Commons heritage committee, who raised concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) suppression tactics in Canada.
“What we’re talking about, as I see it, is the systematic targeting of a particular arts and culture presentation by a foreign state that doesn’t like it,” Conservative MP Garnett Genuis said during the committee meeting on May 28….