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iPolitics By Kevin Dougherty. Published on Apr 14, 2021 5:40pm Former Quebec assembly speaker Jean-Pierre Charbonneau asked Premier François Legault on Wednesday to start work on a bill to adopt proportional representation. (Photo via Twitter) Before his Coalition Avenir Québec party came to power in the provincial election on Oct. 1, 2018, François Legault joined other opposition leaders in signing a commitment to legislate proportional representation. Asked then if he might be tempted to “do a Justin Trudeau,” i.e., renege on his promise to adopt proportional representation, Legault replied, “No. We will keep all our promises.” Running as leader of Canada’s second opposition party behind the NDP in 2015, Trudeau promised it would be Canada’s last under the first-past-the-post voting system, proposing instead a ranked-ballot system, in which voters pick candidates in order of preference. ....
Canada’s “left” parties promote bogus claims China is committing “genocide” against Uyghurs Canada’s ruling establishment is doubling down on its anti-China campaign, which echoes and supports Washington’s diplomatic, economic and military-strategic offensive against China. Aimed at whipping up popular hostility to China and justifying aggression, this campaign reached a new pitch with the publication earlier this month of an “open letter” demanding that China be stripped of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics due to its alleged “genocide” against the country’s Uyghur minority. Members of the Uyghur American Association rally in front of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ....
MONTREAL On October 21, 2020, the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights released the following statement: “The Subcommittee unequivocally condemns the persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang by the Government of China. Based on the evidence put forward during the Subcommittee hearings, both in 2018 and 2020, the subcommittee is persuaded that the actions of the Chinese Communist Party constitute genocide as laid out in the Genocide Convention.” We realize that in these difficult times, when the entire planet is facing the worst public health and economic crisis in over a century, human rights are not front of mind. ....