| MACLEOD URGES MCGUINTY TO PUBLICLY TAKE STAND FOR HUMAN RIGHTS |
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| Sunday, 13 April 2008 19:00 |
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(Queen's Park) - MPP Lisa MacLeod responded to the McGuinty Government's secrecy over its recent dealings with China with the following statement: Mr. Speaker, We already know the McGuinty Liberals are silent when it comes to China’s human rights policy. Now the McGuinty Liberals are following in China’s secrecy footsteps: First, with the Economic Development Minister’s covert junket to China; and second with a secret meeting with the Premier and a Chinese governor. What’s next? Are the Liberals going to start silencing protestors at Queen’s Park just like they did with Members of the Queen’s Park press corp earlier today? Unfortunately for comrades McGuinty, Pupatello, Duncan and Smitherman, our very own “Gang of Four”, Ontarians can’t be silenced, and neither can our press. Ontarians expect transparency not closed door meetings and secret trips with a regime that is right now being repudiated for its human rights abuses. Will the Premier lift the veil of secrecy? Will he let the world know that Ontarians value human rights, peace and a free press? Will the Premier stand here today and make a statement that human rights do matter in this Province; Will he clarify that human rights is not just a federal matter; and when he does will he condemn human rights abuses in Tibet, in North Western China with North Korean immigrants; and in China and abroad against the Falun Gong? Or will he sit back in secret? For Immediate Release April 14, 2008 |