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question Kenzie Gray with Global News Um
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Paul Chang one of your candidates in
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Markham talked about turning over a
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conservative candidate to the Chinese
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consulate to receive a bounty placed on
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him by the Chinese Communist Party Can
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you explain why you've not dropped him
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as a liberal candidate uh thank thank
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you for the question Um look the com
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comments uh were deeply offensive Um
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terri this is a terrible lapse of
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judgment by uh Mr Chang He has api
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apologized for those comments He uh he
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has apologized directly uh now to uh uh
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the person in uh that he mentioned uh
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apologized directly to him yesterday
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I've spoken to Mr Chang um uh as well
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over the course of the weekend um
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understand his position
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Um he is a veteran policeman Mr Chang is
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a veteran policeman with more than a
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quarter century of service uh to his
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community Uh 28 years of uh defending uh
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rights uh in this community Um and he
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will continue with his his candidacy uh
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going forward having made those
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apologies uh very clearly to the
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individual to the community um and
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moving forward to serve
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JDC TV News Mr Carney I'd like to press
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you a little bit more on Paul Chang He
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lives in a writing that is 70%
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uh diverse people of color Half of that
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are people from of Chinese ethnic origin
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and of that population about 20% are
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from mainland China The question that
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people from Hong Kong uh have asked me
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to ask is whether or not you are putting
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appeal to those voters those voters who
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may support uh the policies of China
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ahead of the democratic rights and
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safety of dissident who have called
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Canada home and mainly uh Hong Kong
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democracy activists who now live in Mr
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Cheng's writing Ab absolutely not
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absolutely not stand for square for uh
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rights uh for square for uh our position
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our very strong position visa v uh China
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uh respect for Canadian citiz all rights
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of Canadian citizens irrespective of
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whether they hold dual citizenship or
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not to be absolutely clear and Mr Chang
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has long history of service to that
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community history of protecting those
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rights Mr Chang is well aware of these
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issues uh including having uh family in
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Hong Kong How can he be an effective
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representative for them when they no
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longer trust him after he said this the
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question as you know Mr Carney you know
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that Canada has executed four Canadians
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this year You know that there are uh
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human rights activists in China in
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detention right now How can Mr Mr Chang
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how can your party keep him as a
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candidate knowing this context mr Chang
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has apologized for his comments His a
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lapse of judgment He apologized for his
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He's apologized for his comments He's
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apologized directly to me He's
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apologized directly to the individual He
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has a long record of service Uh he's
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going to continue his candidacy Hi there
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It's Ben Hill Times Um I don't know how
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much of uh there's been a bit of an
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update on the Paul Chang um uh story
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today from Carney saying he uh Chang
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still has his confidence uh called it a
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lapse in judgment um that he's made his
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apologies but uh called it a teachable
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moment So I sort of just wanted to get
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your response at um with Carne saying
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who stands uh behind him and then maybe
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just touch on there some saying that
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this gang wasn't really genuinely
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suggesting this or it may have been a
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joke So I just if you can respond to
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those sort of defenses as well I think
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yeah go ahead I think it'd be important
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uh for us to hear from our two
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colleagues here who are from diaspora
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communities from the weaguer community
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and the the Hong Kong community Sorry I
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should have clarified that was Yeah that
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was so I'd like to maybe if you'd like
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maybe from Hong Kong community Yeah Sure
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I would first like to say that as an
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incumbent member of parliament and a
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former police officer Paul Chang should
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have known better Um this is this is a
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situation that the Canadian government
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has um issued statements on Gak has come
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out and said that uh the the arrest
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warrants and bounties um AC um targeting
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Canadians is unacceptable They have
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condemned it Um and so it would be I
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don't think it goes too far for
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Canadians to expect that an incumbent MP
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takes that seriously and acts
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accordingly um for it to be called a a
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lapse in judgment or a joke I think
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um downplays the situation a little bit
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This is a topic that he should have some
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expertise on especially as a
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parliamentary secretary to immigration
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um in the last government uh where he
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was he was briefed on on why there is a
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lifeboat scheme for Hong Kongers leaving
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uh the territory because of human rights
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situations So I think um I expected more
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uh from uh Uger Canadians perspective as
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long as Paul Chang is in the parliament
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and that is a huge shadow
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uh for Uger Canadians to feel
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confident and that person as a former
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police officer and a current MP whose
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primary responsibility is to protect
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Canadian citizens and their rights
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And what we seen is totally opposite and
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this is unacceptable and not only for
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diaspora communities it should be
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unacceptable for liberal party as well
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And uh as I mentioned one of the uh
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recommendation from the justice hogs
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report is to have a proper
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mechanism to monitor and scrutiny for
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the nomination process and the Paul
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Chan's nomination shows that that
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process is not handled properly or
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liberal party did not take uh the
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recommendation of Justice Hog's report
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seriously and we cannot afford to
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continue like this and he should be
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either he should resign or Liberal Party
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should handle this uh situation as soon
