Tianguo Marching Band in Ottawa (Samira Bouaou (Epoch Times))
Those at the rally, who were regaled by the Tianguo marching band, had many reasons to commemorate the milestone, but a common thread among them was the wish for China to be free of the oppressive CCP.
"Quitting the CCP is a very peaceful way that Chinese people chose to say goodbye to the CCP and disassemble the evil regime,” said Mr. Yu, who came to Canada from China 17 years ago.
“Every family in mainland China has their own story on how they were persecuted by the CCP. But people dare not speak out because they are scared of the regime. Now people are waking up, they are choosing their own way to quit it.
“China won’t have a future as long as the CCP exists. The so called ‘reformation and opening’ just benefit those who are in power. Most of the people in China are victims of the evil regime,” Mr. Yu said.
Tibetan Jurme Wangdu speaking in support of those who quit the CCP (Samira Bouaou (Epoch Times))
“I am a Tibetan and I have been fighting for the last 50 years—fighting for freedom, fighting for justice, and fighting for human rights. As a Tibetan I would really like to congratulate you because kind people deserve to have freedom, deserve to have human rights.”
He said he would like to see the rule of law respected by the Chinese leaders who have invaded his country. He wanted to congratulate people who had cut their ties with the Party not just for quitting the CCP but also for “doing something to help the Chinese people.”
High school teacher Gary Craigs said he is “completely against what the CCP is doing.”
“I know about the evil of the CCP. I also had a lot of interest in the Soviet Union, which was also communist, and when communism collapsed there I turned my interest to what was happening in China,” he said.
“I’m doing what I can on a personal level to communicate to others what it is you are trying to tell the world, and I just encourage everyone to let your friends and colleagues know what the CCP is about, how they persecute Falun Gong, persecute Christians, all the evil things the CCP in China has done.”
Mr. Craigs described how he had talked with a woman who was born during the Cultural Revolution. She told him how her parents had to leave China and that they gave her to their friends to raise as their own because they were not allowed to take their child with them.
“I told her that I had heard horrible stories about the Cultural Revolution and that people were forced to eat other people. When I asked her about these stories, she said they were all true.”
Kevin McLeod, a member of Canadian Friends Of Burma, also spoke.
“As you know, Burma today is ruled by a military dictatorship that is unfortunately being supported by the governmentt of China by selling them weapons and helping to punish the people of Burma. It is very very unfortunate, but we hope that things change soon. We hope that the people in China will soon enjoy a free and democratic society.”
Mr. McLoed described the current human rights situation in China and the mistreatment of Uighur Muslims, Tibetans, and labour activists as “quite apalling.”
“I read in the newspaper the other day that the Chinese politburo were even arresting other communists, which shows the kind of paranoia that the communist party has. They arrest anyone whose opinion diverges from theirs and I don’t really know what they stand for. They are the ‘getting rich is glorious’ party. It is totally devoid of any worker’s rights or anything you’d associate with socialism. The conditions for workers in China are just appalling, and the Communist Party’s leadership is totally corrupt. Harvesting human organs is disgusting and I think the world needs to know about the appalling way the Party has been treating people for decades.”
Mr. Dorais happened to be on Parliament Hill when he saw the Tianguo Marching band and wanted to know what was going on. He soon realized that it was a Falun Gong event and decided that he would say a few words in support of the millions in China who have quit their CCP memberships.
He said he learned about the persecution of Falun Gong in China through a friend of his. During a six-hour bus trip the friend had sat beside a Chinese woman who told her about the Falun Gong beliefs and about the persecution in China. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that was outlawed by the Chinese regime in 1999 and has since been heavily persecuted.
A regular reader of The Epoch Times, Mr. Dorais said he thinks the Chinese regime must be watching the event today as they are so sensitive to criticism from a single person let alone 50 million people.
Bill O’Connell of Canadian Friends Of Tibet talked about travelling through China and how his tour guide told him that if he went out on the street and said something against the regime, “in 20 seconds not only would they arrest me, but they would torture me as well.”
“That’s not something that as a Canadian I can even begin to comprehend, but it is something we have to learn is part of their country and it is up to us, one at a time, to bring that down so that China can enjoy the freedoms and all the responsibilities that are part of being a member of the world.”
Dr. Qing Xu changed his way of thinking after leaving China (Samira Bouaou (Epoch Times))
It took him a long time to not only adjust to Western culture but also to a different way of thinking and reasoning. He compared the two societies and realized that Chinese communist society is similar to Russian and Eastern European societies, two countries that he spent some time in. Brutal communist regimes, the use of propaganda, the way the government operates, thinks, and reasons are the same as the CCP, he said.
“The mentality is the same.”
When he was very young Dr. Xu saw people beaten by the Red Guard, saw people suffering such as the young lady whose hair was shaved off because she wore it in a “capitalist style.”
“She suffered tremendous psychological trauma. Not only was she humiliated but she became totally demoralized and dressed like a man to hide her identity,” he said.
As a child his class was made to attend a public beating. He said it was traumatizing for children to see such a shocking event and it left the children confused. He said that after he arrived in Canada he realized that we have the freedom to state what we think and that we have freedom of opinion.
Dr. Xu said that once he realized what a brutal regime the CCP was and how it used propaganda to confuse and poison the people, he turned his back on communism.
