(Minghui.org) “Two leaked CCP documents reveal Xi Jinping directly ordered a new coordinated campaign—one that has escalated sharply over the past two years, combining disinformation, lawfare, and hoax bomb threats targeting Shen Yun and Falun Gong,” said Grace Wollensak, national coordinator of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, during a hearing in front of the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights in Ottawa on April 20, 2026.
Ms. Wollensak made the comments during her testimony before the House of Commons Subcommittee, which is currently studying the global impact of transnational repression.
The subcommittee invited representatives from international organizations, human rights organizations, and groups affected to tell about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intimidation, surveillance, harassment, and disinformation. The hearing was broadcast online.
Hearing on the global impact of transnational repression in the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights on April 20, 2026 (Screenshot from a Parliament video)
The CCP’s Escalating Transnational Repression of Falun Gong and Shen Yun
Grace Wollensak, national coordinator of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, testifies before the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights in Ottawa on April 20, 2026. (Screenshot from a Parliament video)
Ms. Wollensak testified, “In Canada alone, 20 hoax bomb and shooting threats in two years—among over 270 violent threats worldwide. This year, targets expanded to Canadian leaders and Parliament Hill, including a threat stating: ‘If Shen Yun dares to perform in March, something bad will happen to both Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney, and there will be a massive explosion on Parliament Hill.’”
She said that the police deemed these threats non-credible—yet six performances at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre were canceled. The perpetrator then boasted in Chinese emails: “Canada is hardly worth taking seriously.”
Ms. Wollensak said that the sender refers to the CCP as “my motherland’s communist party,” and the emails’ timestamps match China Standard Time. The Vancouver Police Cybercrime Unit traced a threat email sender’s associated phone number directly to China. The sender went further to impersonate practitioners to send bomb threats to targets internationally, including the White House and a Tokyo theater.
The sender of the hoax bomb threat sent two additional Chinese emails on April 3 in which he boasted about the damage he’d caused, scoffed at Canadian officials, and challenged the FBI and global police. He even wrote that his threats would “never end.”
Answering questions from a Member of Parliament (MP), she said, “Legitimate cultural performances within Canada should not be canceled due to bogus threats. If we give in, we play right into the CCP’s hands, encouraging them to continue—and even escalate—such tactics.
“If Canada cancels a performance without fully grasping the nature of foreign interference, it sends a dangerous signal—one that amounts to capitulating to the CCP.”
The CCP’s Transnational Repression and Disinformation
Dr. Maria Cheung testifies before the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights in Ottawa on April 20, 2026. (Screenshot from a Parliament video)
Dr. Maria Cheung, professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba, told MPs that transnational repression by the CCP against Falun Gong is a “sustained global campaign” and is not limited to isolated incidents. “What is happening on Canadian soil is a direct encroachment on sovereignty, democratic values, and fundamental freedoms,” she said.
She said that Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance and is practiced in over 100 countries. The CCP launched the persecution in 1999, leading to mass arrests, torture, killing, and state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting.
Dr. Cheung said that, for 27 years, the CCP has deployed a full spectrum of transnational repression tactics targeting the Falun Gong community in Canada—including disinformation, surveillance, intimidation, harassment, assault, political manipulation, pressure on groups and institutions within the community, cyberattacks, and threats to family members in China. A former high-level Chinese diplomat who has defected testified that persecuting Falun Gong is a formalized daily task for Chinese diplomatic missions worldwide.
She said, “The CCP diplomatic missions and proxies continue to spread propaganda and disinformation through Chinese-language media, digital platforms, and even mainstream outlets. The CCP’s ‘50-cent army’ amplifies this disinformation across Chinese and non-Chinese social media platforms. Recent reports found thousands of fake social media accounts spreading anti–Falun Gong content, likely aligned with China.
“Prolonged disinformation has fostered indifference, eroded public support, and undermined Canada's ability to respond to serious human rights abuses in China and the repression occurring here on Canadian soil.”
Recommendations to Canadian Government
Ms. Wollensak urged the government to take following actions:
1. Publicly condemn this campaign and convey through diplomatic channels that CCP-directed interference with Canadian residents and institutions must stop.
2. Direct the security agencies to investigate these threats as coordinated foreign interference, pursue perpetrators, and train frontline police to recognize transnational repression.
3. Bring Bill C-70’s counter foreign influence provisions into force without delay and enact dedicated legislation explicitly criminalizing transnational repression as a distinct offense.
4. Brief performing arts venues on responding to foreign-linked hoax threats. Where law enforcement finds no credible threat, Canadians’ right to attend lawful performances must be upheld—no foreign actor should veto cultural life in Canada.
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