February 6, 2021 TORONTO, Canada Thirteen lawmakers from Canada’s five federal parties asked the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Beijing Winter Games to another country because of China’s human rights violations against the Turkic Uighur minority. “We have a unique opportunity to come together with all the world’s humanitarians and democrats and take action by refusing to participate in this global sports festival,” read a letter that was initiated by Bloc Quebecois lawmaker Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, vice-chair of the parliamentary subcommittee. It said participating in the Games would mean “taking part in a sinister, self-aggrandizing spectacle” that is held for the benefit of a regime, which is committing the worst crimes against humanity and its own people.