Incidents at Ontario universities this month have raised the spectre of Chinese government interference on Canadian campuses
The torrent of abuse Chinese students and others directed at a Tibetan-Canadian student leader in Toronto has now become a police matter.
Muslim and Tibetan student groups have called on the federal government to investigate whether such incursions did occur. China’s embassy in Ottawa has denied playing a part in either episode. “It is a little threatening, to be roaming around hallways knowing that at any time I could be attacked,” she said in an interview. “We came to Canada hoping for a better quality of life. To be bullied even here … catches up on your mental health sometimes.”
The change.org petition — digitally signed almost entirely by people with Chinese names — suggested that her devotion to the Tibetan cause is “irrational” and an affront to international students at the university. The section of the Criminal Code dealing with harassment makes it an offence to engage in threatening behaviour or repeatedly communicate in a way that leaves someone fearing for their safety.
An online update to the petition said it was not meant as a “personal attack, character assassination or threat of any kind,” but to voice disapproval of Lhamo’s “participation in political campaigns that were clearly against Chinese history, Chinese laws and Chinese students’ rights.”
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