Parliamentarians Moved by ‘Letter from Masanjia’ Doc Screened on Parliament Hill

‘It’s a lesson of courage, of hope, and also vigilance,’ says MP Steven Blaney

Co-hosts Senator Marilou McPhedran (3rd R), MP Cheryl Hardcastle (4th R), and MP Tom Kmiec (2nd L), along with attendees MP Steven Blaney (1st L), film producer and director Leon Lee (3rd L), MP Arnold Viersen (4th L), MP David Anderson (2nd R), and MP Harold Albrecht (1st R), at the screening of the award-winning documentary “Letter from Masanjia” on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 5, 2018. Grace Dai/The Epoch Times

Senator Marilou McPhedran said tears came to her eyes while watching “Letter from Masanjia,” an award-winning documentary about a man held in a labour camp in China notorious for its brutal treatment of detainees.

The film tells the story of prisoner of conscience Sun Yi, who wrote a desperate SOS letter and hid it in a box of K-Mart Halloween decorations made by slave labour at the Masanjia Labour Camp. The letter finds its way into the hands of Julie Keith, a mother of two living in Oregon.