Thirteen MPs from all five major federal parties in Canada have signed a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to another country over reported human rights abuses of China's Uighur minority. We would respond that when genocide is happening, it is no longer a matter of politics, but of human rights and crimes against humanity." Bloc MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, vice-chair of the parliamentary subcommittee on international human rights, spearheaded the letter signed by federal MPs, Quebec politicians and human rights groups. "So we have to focus on this genocide and these Olympic Games." (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via The Associated Press)Both the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee have said they are firmly against a boycott.

Source: CBC News February 06, 2021 20:03 UTC