432-01222 (Foreign affairs)

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, draw attention of the House of Commons to the following:

Whereas the Canadian Parliament has unanimously passed the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, also known as the Sergei Magnitsky Act, to sanction corrupt foreign officials who, among others, are responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights;

Whereas since 1999, the Former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin and his cohorts personally ordered, launched, orchestrated and executed the eradication campaign against Falun Gong using its state apparatus, including the extrajudicial torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners in large numbers with impunity for their beliefs in "truthfulness, compassion and tolerance"; and whereas Falun Gong practitioners have been killed for their organs in China on a massive scale, which has been well documented and widely reported;

Whereas Canadian Citizen Ms. Sun Qian has been sentenced to 8 years in prison and another eight Falun Gong practitioners with Canadian ties are suffering imprisonment in China, with sentences of up to 16 years, for their belief; and

Whereas extensive evidence points to fourteen key officials and former officials of the Chinese Communist Regime who demonstrate prime culpability in the human rights atrocities committed against Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Therefore, we, the undersigned, urge the Government of Canada to deploy all legal sanctions, including the freezing of assets, and barring of entry to Canada, against these perpetrators under the Sergei Magnitsky Act.