Markham – 24th April 2021, It is reported that a similar motion presented to City of Brampton has been presented to City of Markham.
A motion to build a Tamil Genocide Memorial dressed as a “Tamil Memorial” was presented by Ward 7 Councillor, Khalid Usman. Councillor Usman did not face election for his first appointment in 2018. Instead was appointed by the City Council to fill the vacancy created when, (at the time) Councillor Logan Kanapahy was voted in for provincial politics in 2018. In 2019 Mr. Usman won ward 7 election. He had fund raised 52,176. See expense report here. Currently MPP Logan Kanapathy is chair of the Standing Committee on Private Members Bills where the untruthful and heavily critizised Bill 104 (Tamil Genocide Education Week Act) , in which MPP Vijay Thanigasalam self created false narratives that has been sitting since 2019.
Councillor Usman brought forward the following motion on the April 6th General committee meeting, an untruthful and biased event premise that a memorial in Sri Lanka was demolished without mentioning that it was rebuilt.
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Link to original document:
https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.ashx?DocumentId=39225
A similar motion was originally presented to City of Brampton as a “Tamil Memorial” but later changed to “Tamil Memorial Genocide Monument”. See below document.
Link to original document:
https://pub-brampton.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.ashx?DocumentId=16734
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