On the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, took the opportunity to shoot a few arrows at Beijing.
In 1989, the Chinese government killed thousands of students demonstrating for a democratic China.
“We must all remember the courage of these protesters and reflect on the nature of a government that massacres its own civilians and then suppresses all commemoration and debate, even 34 years after the fact,” said Pierre Poilievre.
“The Beijing Communist Party has failed to atone for its cruelty,” he added. Whether it is the genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the aggression in the South China Sea, or the persecution of Chinese Canadians in Canada, it has become clear that we must oppose the communist government in Beijing. »
Pierre Poilievre insisted that the Conservatives will “always stand by Canadians of Chinese origin who are trying to live in peace.”
Some estimates from British archives put the number of dead in the Tiananmen Square massacre at 10,000.