Human Rights Group Proposes New Lifeboat Scheme to Canada to Offer More Hongkongers Refuge

In early June, 2022, Hong Kong Watch co-founder Aileen Calverley, proposed the "Human Rights Defenders Protection Plan" to Canadian MPs, hoping that Canada would continue and expand the scope of its "Lifeboat Program" to protect more Hongkongers,.  Photo taken Jan 7, 2006 shows: (L-R) Ray Wong Toi-yeung, Aileen Calverley, Benedict Rogers of Hong Kong Watch. Yi Ling/The Epoch Times

The Canadian government announced the extension of its lifeboat work visa program in May, 2021, but not many Hongkongers could apply.

For this matter, human rights organizations proposed a new Hongkongers Protection Plan to the Canadian government, to expand the scope of the previous lifeboat program, so that more Hongkongers who wish to leave Hong Kong can be safeguarded under Canadian wings.