Trudeau condemns China’s encroachment on Hong Kong and invites expats to return home GlobePolitics
Mr. Trudeau, like other members of his cabinet before him, declined to say whether Canada would open its doors to Hongkongers without Canadian connections who might seek refuge here if conditions deteriorate. As The Globe and Mail reported last month, nearly 50 Hong Kong activists, many who face charges back home for participating in protests, have already filed for asylum in Canada.
In a remarkable move Wednesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a direct message to the former British colony, pledging in a column in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post that he would provide a path to British citizenship for approximately three million qualifying Hongkongers after Beijing officially adopts the new security law.
The documents currently allow holders to stay in Britain for six months, but Mr. Johnson said London would expand this duration. The newly formed Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China includes Liberal MP John McKay, chair of the Commons public safety and national-security committee, as well as Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, a member of the House Canada-China committee.Among the U.S. members are Robert Menendez, the most powerful Democratic senator on the Senate committee on foreign relations and Republican Marco Rubio, acting chair of the Senate intelligence committee.
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