(Clearwisdom.net) On April 29, Falun Gong practitioners in Toronto held a meeting at Toronto University to introduce Falun Gong to immigration lawyers. At the meeting, Falun Gong practitioners played a film explaining Falun Gong and the persecution that Falun Gong has suffered for more than four years. Individual Falun Gong practitioners talked about their personal experience of health benefits and spiritual improvement from practicing Falun Gong. Some talked about their experience of being persecuted in the forced labor camps in Mainland China. Western practitioners spoke of their compassion towards Chinese people that has grown from practicing Falun Dafa.
The meeting was rich in content. The sharing of Falun Gong practitioners was genuine, vivid, and also humorous. The audience applauded every speaker. The practitioner who organized the meeting said, "The Canadian government is the representative of the kind and just Canadian people, and is the first government in the world that stood up to condemn Jiang's violent actions at the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong. In the past four years, the Canadian government has offered tremendous understanding and help to Falun Gong practitioners in Canada. Accepting Falun Gong practitioners as refugees is an example of such support."
Yet in Canada, some people who are not Falun Gong practitioners have also applied for refugee status under the name of Falun Gong. The Canadian Ministry of Immigration has also discovered this issue and is cooperating with Falun Gong practitioners, asking them to introduce immigration officials to the truth about Falun Gong.
In fact, Falun Gong practitioners are very sympathetic towards other Chinese who apply for refugee status. If China were as peaceful, beautiful, and rich as Canada and had democracy, freedom, and a legal system, who would be likely to suffer such painful life experiences [as those being persecuted in China]' However, it is very possible for those who use the name of Falun Gong, but don't understand it, to do things that damage the reputation of Falun Gong. This hurts the true Falun Gong practitioners who are still suffering the atrocious persecution in China. This can also be an affront to the kindness of the Canadians.
Therefore, Falun Gong practitioners in every big city will hold successive meetings to introduce Falun Gong to immigration lawyers. At such meetings, Falun Gong practitioners will provide detailed materials about Falun Gong to immigration lawyers and others, helping them to gain an in-depth understanding of Falun Gong. We hope this will enable immigration lawyers in the future to better help Falun Gong practitioners in their application for refugee status. We also hope this will help to persuade others from China to use the correct ways to apply for refugee status.
Some people in the audience had tears in their eyes when they saw the truth about the cruel torture methods. After the meeting, everyone said that this introduction was very good and that they had learned a lot. They also said that they would be happy to recommend the meetings to their friends.
