Hundreds of protesters gathered in Grange Park in downtown Toronto on the evening of Dec. 3, to support the “White Paper Revolution” in China that calls for an end to Beijing’s draconian “zero-COVID policy.”
Multiple civil rights associations attended the gathering, including the Toronto Association for Democracy in China (TADC), the Federation for a Democratic China (FDC), and the Democratic Party of China Canada Committee (CDP-Canada). The protesters, many from the Hong Kong, Tibetan, and Uyghur communities, were heard chanting slogans such as “Down with the Communist Party” and calling for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “step down.”