Former Hong Kong legislator Kwok Wing-kong and his wife and son have settled in Canada, the Canadian community in Hong Kong is pleased to hear the news, have said that China’s abusive actions continue to expand, and may even ban Hong Kong people from leaving the country at will in August this year, which is worrying, hope that Canada and other Western allies to speed up to help the people of Hong Kong want to leave the territory.
Sources said that Kwok Wing-clang, who announced his withdrawal from politics after being disqualified from the Legislative Council in November last year, went to London alone and then arrived in Canada, where his wife and children arrived in Vancouver in mid-February. The reporter has not yet contacted Kwok himself, but the Hong Kong community in Canada is also very concerned about his latest developments.
The president of the Hong Kong and Canadian Federation, Yvonne Fung, said she had contact with Kwok a few days ago and did not hear him talk about the news that he had arrived in Canada, so maybe he needs some privacy. Fung said Kwok and Leung had spoken in Toronto a few years ago about Hong Kong, and both had contributed much to the city. She said that some people criticize the democrats who left Hong Kong for being timid and afraid of trouble, but in fact, to leave or stay deserve respect and affirmation, like last month Law Kwun Chung, Chow Wing Hong and other eight Hong Kong people who are overseas launched the “2021 Hong Kong Charter” to continue to fight for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong. Now that Kwok Wing-kong has gone overseas, he will also be able to effectively use his strength to continue the fight. “When he goes abroad and leaves Hong Kong, it is not to figure out his own security, but to better fight this holding battle and to aggregate some progressive forces internationally in the hope of preserving the sense of Hong Kong’s main body.”
Alliance Canada Hong Kong (Alliance Canada Hong Kong) executive director Cherie Wong said she has heard the news that Hong Kong will empower the government to ban someone from leaving the territory, which may be implemented in August, adding to the bad news for democrats. “The situation in Hong Kong is getting worse and worse, every day we hear new policies coming out to further suppress Hong Kong’s autonomy, of course forcing more Hong Kong people to leave. Kwok Wing-kong is considered lucky to be able to come to Canada, and now that the Canadian border is blocked, many people cannot get in even if they want to, and that’s why we keep calling on Ottawa to actively assist Hong Kong people.”
Former Hong Kong legislator Albert Chan, who left Hong Kong four years ago to settle in Vancouver, lamented that so much has happened in Hong Kong in just a few years, saying the Chinese authorities are planning a purge and that Xi Jinping is replicating Mao Zedong’s Three Against Five campaign back then. “This makes me feel as if it is the 1951 Shanghai campaign, that year is to eliminate all the forces that do not support the Communist Party, Hong Kong is the same as Shanghai at that time. So the arrests, prosecutions, and crackdowns are getting more and more violent, and Hong Kong has completely changed.”
George Lau, one of the leaders of the Toronto pro-democracy movement who helped pro-democracy activists flee China during the June 4 Tiananmen Incident, said that Operation Yellow Bird back then helped many mainland Chinese escape by relying on Hong Kong power, and that the situation for Hong Kong pro-democracy activists now is even more difficult than back then. “In the old days, that Operation Yellow Bird, the Hong Kong government would not stop them from leaving via Hong Kong even though they did not help, but now Hong Kong is totally different, so that pipeline is not going to work.”
Who can help them? The Hong Kong community in Canada is pressuring the Canadian government on many fronts to push Ottawa to relax border epidemic controls on the entry of Hong Kong people. Yvonne Fung said, “Time is running out, there is still a lot of work to be done, and we will not give up even if it is tough.”
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