MP Urges Ottawa to Condemn Proposed Hong Kong Law That Would Allow More Suppression

A figure in the shape of a hand, with the colours of China’s national flag for fingernails and a “23” on its palm, referencing the controversial proposed Article 23 national security law, is carried by protesters at a National Day rally in Hong Kong on Oct. 1, 2018. Thousands marched in Hong Kong that day against suppression by Beijing as fears grow that freedoms in the semi-autonomous city are seriously under threat. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images

Conservative MP and foreign affairs critic Michael Chong is calling on the federal government to condemn proposed legislation in Hong Kong that he says, if enacted, would allow the communist regime to further suppress free speech and democratic expressions.

Article 23, outlined in Hong Kong’s Basic Law enacted after its handover from British rule in 1997, mandated that Hong Kong write its own national security legislation.