Canada: 53 Senators and Members of Parliament Issue Joint Statement to Condemn the Chinese Regime’s Transnational Repression

(Minghui.org) At a recent event to mark the 26^th anniversary of Falun Gong practitioners’ protesting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution, 53 Canadian Senators and Members of Parliament (MPs) issued a joint statement condemning the CCP’s ongoing persecution and its escalating transnational repression.

Fifty-three Canadian Senators and MPs issued a joint statement to condemn the CCP’s ongoing persecution and escalating transnational repression.

The statement reads, “Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a peaceful spiritual practice based on the universal values of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Since 1999, the CCP has attempted to eliminate this faith group through systematic and egregious human rights abuses.”

The Senators and MPs specifically condemned the CCP’s transnational repression in Canada. “In 2025, bomb and mass shooting threats were sent to venues hosting Shen Yun—a classical Chinese dance company founded by Falun Gong practitioners—in four Canadian cities, among over 140 such incidents reported globally. Some of these threats have been traced to sources in China. These acts are part of a broader, global CCP-led campaign of sabotage aimed at suppressing Falun Gong and Shen Yun.

“Over the past 26 years, Falun Gong practitioners in Canada have endured surveillance, harassment, intimidation, assault, disinformation, cyberattacks, and other forms of CCP repression. These actions not only harm the Falun Gong community and disrupt Shen Yun, but also threaten the integrity of Canada’s institutions, sovereignty, and core democratic values.”

A similar statement was issued by Senators and MPs after the G7 Summit in Alberta, June 15-17, vowing to combat transnational repression. They emphasized that such repression “often impacts dissidents, journalists, human rights defenders, religious minorities, and those identified as part of diaspora communities.”

The July statement continued, “In the statement issued in June, 2025, the G7 Leaders affirmed their commitment to protect communities and condemned transnational repressions as a serious threat to rights and freedoms, national security, and state sovereignty. The CCP’s campaign against Falun Gong clearly exemplifies the very dangers the G7 has called on the world to resist together.”

Senators and MPs urged the Chinese government to immediately end the persecution of Falun Gong and to stop all transnational repression on Canadian soil.

MPs Call to Counteract the CCP’s Transnational Repression

Ms. Dai, spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, said the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong is not limited to China, and its transnational suppression and smear campaigns span the globe. Since 2022, the CCP regime has been engaging in a more aggressive and sophisticated campaign to intimidate, threaten, and silence Falun Gong and entities like Shen Yun Performing Arts, especially in the United States, and also in Canada and other countries. Well-documented incidents include an attempt to bribe U.S. officials to terminate Shen Yun’s tax-exempt status, manipulating the U.S. legal system, over 100 anonymous bomb threats, and social media manipulation campaigns.

This year, in several Canadian cities where Shen Yun was scheduled to perform, including Vancouver, Montreal, Mississauga, and Kitchener, theaters received threats of violence. Calgary also experienced interference prior to their Shen Yun performance.

The Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver received a threatening email on March 30 this year, when Shen Yun was about to perform there. The email contained such statements as, “We have prepared Molotov cocktails and guns.” “We will enter as audience members on the day of the Shen Yun performance.” “If the performance starts, we will suddenly pull out guns, shoot at the actors, and throw Molotov cocktails onto the stage.”

The Shen Yun performance in Vancouver was held without incident from April 9 to 13, 2025. Similar threats were issued against the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, when two days before the Shen Yun performance, a Chinese person threatened that if the Shen Yun performance were not canceled, explosives would be detonated in the arts center. Four minutes later, the same email was sent to the Centre In The Square near Kitchener, Ontario, where Shen Yun was scheduled to perform on March 27.

That same morning, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver received a threat about a mass shooting, and the organizers of the Shen Yun performance in Montreal also received five similar threatening messages on the real-time chat platform. The organizers reported the threats to the police and told them that similar threats have been made in other countries.

Judy Sgro, senior Liberal MP and Co-Chair of Parliamentary Friends of Falun Gong (PFOFG), said in an interview that Canada must counteract the CCP’s transnational repression.

Judy Sgro MP speaks at the World Falun Dafa Day celebration on May 28, 2025.

Scott Reid, MP and Deputy House Leader of the Canadian Opposition, said in an earlier interview, “Shen Yun has been a very effective tool for bringing awareness both of Falun Dafa itself and traditional Chinese culture to the wider public in these countries. So shutting it down through a variety of mechanisms, denying a venue, trying to make people not want to go through threats of violence... These are tactics that can reduce the transmission of information.”

Scott Reid MP speaks at the World Falun Dafa Day celebration on May 28, 2025.

MP Reid also said, “Threatening to have a bomb or some kind of other violence, that is actually against the law, it’s a criminal offense to do that. To have a state in one country ... doing that in another country is absolutely unacceptable.”

In a recent interview, MP Michael Cooper said that sanctions must be imposed on transnational repression. He stated, “It’s very disturbing and it’s unacceptable. And it underscores the lengths to which the Chinese communist regime will go. But certainly the legislation that was passed in the last parliament [C-70] could provide some additional tools.”

Micheal Cooper MP speaks at the World Falun Dafa Day celebration on May 28, 2025.

Ms. Dai appreciates the support of Canadian MPs. “In Canada, more and more people have become aware of this threat of transnational repression by the CCP,” she said. “People, especially Government officials, are more alert to it. We are happy that more than 50 Senators and MPs have spoken out to condemn the CCP’s suppression of Falun Gong.”

She continued, “Although many Senators and MPs are on vacation and their offices are closed for the summer, in just two and a half weeks, more than 50 Senators and MPs issued a joint statement condemning the persecution, which shows that they understand the importance of this issue and express their support to stand in solitary with Falun Gong practitioners. We are very encouraged and deeply grateful for this.”

International Human Rights Organization Issues Statement to Condemn the Persecution

In addition to Canadian Senators and MPs, several Canadian international human rights organizations have also issued statements condemning the persecution. The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, a Canadian international human rights organization dedicated to protecting the world’s most vulnerable groups, issued a statement on July 21 condemning the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.

The statement reads, “Today marks 26 years since the Chinese Communist Party launched its campaign to eliminate Falun Gong through a systematic assault on this peaceful spiritual community.

“Millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China have since been imprisoned, tortured, or killed, including through forced organ harvesting.

“What began as a brutal domestic crackdown has evolved into a wide-reaching, systematic effort to suppress Falun Gong practitioners both inside China and abroad, including here in Canada.

“We stand in solidarity with the Falun Gong community in Canada and around the world, who continue to endure surveillance, harassment, disinformation, and repression simply for exercising their fundamental rights. Alongside other persecuted religious and spiritual communities in China, Falun Gong practitioners are denied their basic Article 18 rights—freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.”

The statement concluded, “We renew our call for an end to this decades-long campaign of persecution and urge democratic governments to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable, and to take concrete action to defend universal human rights and uphold the principles of justice and human dignity.”

In addition to Canada, parliamentarians from 39 countries around the world have also issued a joint statement. On July 20, on the 26th anniversary of Falun Gong practitioners’ peacefully protesting the persecution, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) issued a statement on the X platform to support Falun Gong.

Sixteen U.S. Congressional members also expressed their long-standing and firm support for Falun Gong practitioners through speeches given at rallies, congressional forums, as well as letters of support and video speeches to mark the 26^th anniversary of resistance to the persecution. They praised the perseverance and courage shown by Falun Gong practitioners, called on the international community to work together to stop the CCP’s persecution, and affirmed: “The trampling of freedom of belief and the persecution of practitioners must never be tolerated.”