{"id":6699,"date":"2025-10-04T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:32:55","slug":"sikyong-penpa-tsering-concludes-ottawa-visit-with-press-conference-parliamentary-meetings-and-think-tank-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/sikyong-penpa-tsering-concludes-ottawa-visit-with-press-conference-parliamentary-meetings-and-think-tank-dis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikyong Penpa Tsering concludes Ottawa visit with press conference, parliamentary meetings and think tank dis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ottawa, October 3, 2025<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 On the fourth and fifth days of his official visit to Ottawa,\u00a0Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the\u00a0Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), continued his engagement with Canadian leaders, officials, and academic institutions, focusing on key issues such as the protection of Tibetan children from China\u2019s residential school system, support for Tibetan diaspora communities, and the need for international action to safeguard the succession of\u00a0His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama\u00a0from foreign interference.<\/p>\n\n

The fourth day began with a meeting between Sikyong and\u00a0MP Garnett Genuis, vice-chair of the\u00a0Parliamentary Friends of Tibet (PFT), where they discussed strengthening Canada\u2019s parliamentary support for Tibet and advancing coordinated policy initiatives. Later that morning, Sikyong held a\u00a0press conference on China\u2019s colonial-style residential schools in Tibet, where more than one million Tibetan children are forcibly separated from their families and subjected to state-led cultural assimilation.<\/p>\n

Press Conference: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aXhmQ07EC4w&t=2s<\/p>\n\n

The press conference, held just a day after Canada observed its\u00a0National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, highlighted the parallels between Canada\u2019s residential school history and the current situation in Tibet. Sikyong was joined by\u00a0MP Garnett Genuis,\u00a0MP Karim Bardeesy,\u00a0MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe,\u00a0Dr. Charles Burton, senior advisor to the\u00a0Canada Tibet Committee (CTC), and\u00a0Dean Baxendale\u00a0of Optimum Publishing International.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Following the press conference, Sikyong held a meeting with\u00a0MP Karim Bardeesy\u00a0and later met with officials from the\u00a0International Development division of Global Affairs Canada. Discussions centered on\u00a0Canada\u2019s potential funding support for Tibetan diaspora communities in India and Nepal, focusing on education, cultural preservation, and community development initiatives.<\/p>\n\n

On the fifth and final day of his Ottawa visit, Sikyong addressed students in the\u00a0anthropology program at the University of Ottawa, speaking to a class led by\u00a0Professor Scott Simon. In his lecture, Sikyong shared insights into the legal status of Tibet, cultural resilience, and the global significance of the Tibetan plateau, encouraging students to view the Tibet issue within the broader context of international human rights and geopolitics.<\/p>\n\n

Sikyong also took part in a\u00a0roundtable discussion with members of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), marking the\u00a0second collaboration between the Canada Tibet Committee and MLI in the past three years. The roundtable focused on strategic policy approaches to Tibet advocacy in the context of global democratic cooperation and China\u2019s growing authoritarian influence.<\/p>\n\n

As the final engagement of his Ottawa trip, Sikyong met with\u00a0Senator Marilou McPhedran\u00a0to discuss the role of Canada\u2019s upper chamber in advancing human rights and religious freedom for the Tibetan people.<\/p>\n\n

Throughout these engagements, Sikyong was accompanied by\u00a0Namgyal Choedup, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and head of the\u00a0Office of Tibet, Tencho Gyatso, President of the\u00a0International Campaign for Tibet, Jigmey Namgyal, the\u00a0Secretary of the CTA\u2019s Department of Education, Bob Ankerson, the President of The Tibet Fund and\u00a0Sherap Therchin, Executive Director of the\u00a0Canada Tibet Committee.<\/p>\n\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 3, 2025\u00a0\u2014 On the fourth and fifth days of his official visit to Ottawa,\u00a0Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the\u00a0Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), continued his engagement with Canadian leaders, officials, and academic institutions, focusing on key issues such as the protection of Tibetan children from China\u2019s residential school system, support for Tibetan diaspora communities, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39,14,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/6699","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=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}