{"id":6663,"date":"2025-10-02T02:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:09:34","slug":"tibetan-political-leader-sikyong-penpa-tsering-visits-ottawa-meets-canadian-lawmakers-and-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/tibetan-political-leader-sikyong-penpa-tsering-visits-ottawa-meets-canadian-lawmakers-and-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Political Leader Sikyong Penpa Tsering Visits Ottawa, Meets Canadian Parliamentarians and Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ottawa, October 1, 2025<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Tibetan political leader\u00a0Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), is on an official visit to Ottawa this week, engaging with Canadian lawmakers, senior officials, and journalists to strengthen support for Tibet and discuss pressing issues, including the future of the Dalai Lama\u2019s institution and human rights in Tibet.<\/p>

During his visit, Sikyong Penpa Tsering met with prominent members of Canada\u2019s media and thinktanks, including\u00a0investigative journalist\u00a0and writer\u00a0Sam Cooper,\u00a0Steven Chase\u00a0of\u00a0The Globe and Mail<\/em>, Dean Baxendale of Optimum Publication International and\u00a0Dr. Charles Burton, a leading China expert and senior advisor to the Canada Tibet Committee (CTC). He also held meetings with officials from\u00a0Global Affairs Canada\u00a0and members of Parliament to discuss Canada\u2019s role in defending Tibetan rights and religious freedom.<\/p>

Interview with Sam Cooper:\u00a0https:\/\/www.thebureau.news\/p\/tibetan-government-in-exile-leader<\/a><\/p>

Interview with Globe and Mail\u2019s Steven Chase:\u00a0https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-dalai-lama-reincarnation-canada-asked-to-take-position\/<\/a><\/p>

A lunch meeting hosted by\u00a0the Chair of Parliamentary Friends of Tibet,\u00a0MP James Maloney,\u00a0brought together several parliamentarians, including\u00a0MP Yvan Baker,\u00a0MP Karim Bardeesy,\u00a0MP Elizabeth May, and\u00a0MP Terry Sheehan. Later in the day, Sikyong met with\u00a0Bloc\u00a0Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet and MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe,\u00a0followed by a dinner, to discuss cross-party parliamentary support for Tibet in Ottawa.\u00a0<\/p>

The meetings with parliamentarians included discussions on the international community\u2019s responsibility to safeguard the\u00a0succession of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama\u00a0from any foreign interference, protecting human rights in Tibet and resolving the Sino-Tibetan conflict through dialogues. Sikyong emphasized the need for coordinated action among Canada and its allies, particularly within\u00a0multilateral forums such as the G7 and intelligence-sharing alliances like the Five Eyes,\u00a0to counter Beijing\u2019s attempts to control or manipulate this deeply spiritual process.<\/p>

As part of his visit, Sikyong Penpa Tsering will hold a\u00a0press conference tomorrow focusing on the Chinese government\u2019s system of residential schools in Tibet, where over a million Tibetan children are separated from their families and subjected to cultural assimilation.\u00a0<\/p>

Sikyong will also meet with\u00a0MP Garnett Genuis, a long-time friend of Tibet and\u00a0vice-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, to discuss further parliamentary action and collaboration on Tibet-related issues.<\/p>

Sikyong was accompanied by\u00a0the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and head of the Office of Tibet, Dr. Namgyal Choedup, and\u00a0Sherap Therchin, Executive Director of the Canada Tibet Committee. They were also joined later by\u00a0Tencho Gyatso, President of the International Campaign for Tibet, and the\u00a0Secretary of the Department of Education of the Central Tibetan Administration.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ottawa, October 1, 2025\u00a0\u2014 Tibetan political leader\u00a0Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), is on an official visit to Ottawa this week, engaging with Canadian lawmakers, senior officials, and journalists to strengthen support for Tibet and discuss pressing issues, including the future of the Dalai Lama\u2019s institution and human rights in Tibet. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1,39,14,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-uncategorized","category-human-rights-in-tibet","category-news","category-resolving-sino-tibetan-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6716,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions\/6716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}