Conservative MP Jacob Mantle is asking Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to investigate the attack on a Falun Gong practitioner protesting outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto, and to expel the attacker if he is found to be an agent of Beijing.
“Violent actions against peaceful demonstrators are not acceptable in Canada,” Mantle said in a letter to Anand that he posted publicly on Oct. 13. “I am sure you will agree that it is unacceptable for foreign state actors to engage in this behaviour, which undoubtedly violates all accepted norms of diplomatic conduct.”
Conservative MP Jacob Mantle asks a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 4, 2026. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick)
Videos from the incident on Sept. 22 show a man wearing a jacket bearing the flag of the People’s Republic of China attacking Lina Li, a Toronto-area Falun Gong practitioner. Li was standing outside the consulate with banners raising awareness about the Chinese communist regime’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline….