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Sparks flew at recent special council meeting in Brampton after Mayor Patrick Brown moved a successful motion to end an investigation into procurement practices at city hall.

Wards 3 and 4 Coun. Jeff Bowman stormed out of council chambers after Brown moved the motion during the Aug. 26 meeting to stop a nearly complete third-party investigation into four requests for proposals (RFP) and procurements and refer those matters to the integrity commissioner.

Brown moved the motion despite Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Paul Morrison telling council the findings and report were expected sometime this month, and City Clerk Peter Fay indicating the integrity commissioner doesn’t have jurisdiction over those kinds of investigations. The city had already spent more than $50,000 on the third-party investigation.

“We’re just going to throw away $50,000 plus (taxpayers money) away, hold this investigation off and any of its findings that might already be determined until after the election? So, any wrongdoing that might have been found during any of these RFP investigations, we’re just saying, ‘don’t even worry about it, not important, let’s hold the election first (and) vote everybody back in’. And then we’ll … send it to an integrity commissioner, who may not even be able to look at them,” Bowman told council.

“We’ve got Canada’s leading expert on procurement, who’s doing these RFPs, and we are saying to him, ‘no, we’d rather have an integrity commissioner look at them’. This is absurd, this is a 100 per cent, total cover up by this council of actions that have been taken during this term of office,” Bowman added before storming out of the council chambers.

After Bowman’s exit, Brown hastily called a vote on the motion and passed it without giving members of council a chance to object and moving on despite one councillor clearly trying to do so.

Council ordered the investigation in May and the unnamed investigator was probing four requests for proposal for legal risk assurance, the appointment of former integrity commissioner Muneeza Sheik, the now-defunct Municipal Development Corporation initiative, and procurement of COVID-19 supplies.

Sheikh’s contract was terminated earlier this year after some councillors raised concerns about fees exceeding $700,000. She has since launched a lawsuit against the city and five current and one former councillor over her dismissal.

Brown told the Brampton Guardian that he and a majority of council believe the procurement investigation is politically motivated and raised concerns that it was being overseen by a steering committee comprised of just three councillors.

“Our motion was clear. We don’t want council to be politically involved in investigations. The motion recognized that having a steering committee of councillors was inappropriate,” Brown told the Brampton Guardian.

“The majority of council felt it was more appropriate to use the established mechanisms to determine if any further review is necessary which is internal audit, integrity commissioner or ombudsman. Council shouldn’t be directing investigations. It should be the statutory officers responsible for it,” he added.

However, Brown raised those same concerns during council’s regular meeting on Aug. 10 and Morrison assured council that the steering committee — comprised of Bowman and councillors Gurpreet Dhillon and Pat Fortini — was not directly involved in the investigation beyond selecting the investigator and receiving updates.

Despite that, Coun. Rowena Santos, who supported Brown’s motion and acknowledged Morrison’s assurances, said she still felt a steering committee comprised of just three councillors raised questions.

“It’s unknown because they refused to have any other councillors who were interested to be involved. It is not transparent, no. It is questionable,” she said in an interview.

Bowman denied the steering committee interfered with or directed the investigation in any way and maintained his allegations of an attempted cover up.

“It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen,” he said in an interview. “I said my piece and I stand by exactly what I said in council. I think this is a massive cover up.”

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Amb. Aryasinha cites Gash, Smith:

Following Gen. Chagie Gallage’s strong condemnation of what he called a sininster US move to harass Sri Lanka further, as reported by The Island recently, the Sri Lankan government has formally requested the US House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) not to proceed with H. RES. 413 against Sri Lanka moved by Congresswoman Deborah Ross (Democrat/North Carolina) on 18 May 2021.

In a letter addressed to HFAC Chair Representative Gregory Meeks (Democrat/New York) and Ranking Member Representative Michael McCaul (Republican/Texas), Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the USA Ravinatha Aryasinha said, “Sri Lanka vehemently opposes the contents of the resolution which contains allegations relating to Sri Lanka that are inaccurate, biased and unsubstantiated, raising grave suspicion regarding the intention of the resolution”.

The letter was accompanied by a detailed analysis of the resolution, which laid out paragraph by paragraph, its prejudicial nature.

The Ambassador observed that the proposed resolution which equates the LTTE – proscribed by the US since 1997 and named by the FBI in 2008 as “among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world” – to an ‘armed independence organization’, exposes the resolution’s origins and purpose.

The Resolution encourages separatism and questions even the nature of the Sri Lanka State, by references to ‘Traditional Tamil Homelands’. This not only misrepresents established historical facts, and present-day realities, but also contributes to supporting the dismemberment of Sri Lanka, which is the ultimate goal of the LTTE and its supporters.

Ambassador Aryasinha said the resolution’s willful ignorance of the USA’s own security concerns about the LTTE and its front organizations and efforts at glorification of terrorism, will give inspiration to rump elements of the LTTE and its numerous front organizations within the US and across the world, as well as to other terrorist organizations.

Observing that the USA had been “a consistent defense partner of Sri Lanka, including in Sri Lanka’s war against terror”, the Ambassador said “the resolution which is at significant variance with stated U.S. policy, across Administrations – both Democratic and Republican, may lead to an erroneous conclusion that the House supports armed acts to achieve political goals. This would undermine the US Administration’s own foreign policy foundation of being rooted in democratic values, and negatively impact the warm bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and the USA”.

It asserts that the Sri Lanka Government, having struggled for nearly 30 years to defeat LTTE terrorism, consistent with its constitutional duties to protect its citizens regardless of race, religion, language, caste, sex, political opinion or place of birth, launched a humanitarian operation to protect and liberate all Sri Lankans. It also outlined the measures taken by the Government since the defeat of terrorism in May 2009, to address the needs of 300,000 internally displaced who had been used as human shields by the retreating LTTE, to rebuild and develop infrastructure in the conflict affected areas and to restore livelihood opportunities to many, including to over 12,000 ex-LTTE combatants – also comprising 596 child soldiers, who were rehabilitated and reintegrated into the society.

Ambassador Aryasinha recalled that following the ending of the conflict, the then government in 2013 conducted Northern Provincial Council elections, ensuring democratic freedoms and rights to the people of the North. He noted that since 2017, all minority parties in Parliament, including the TNA, supported the deferral of elections, through a ruling that required electoral reform prior to holding PC elections, which never materialized. For nearly 3 years, the HRC or Western countries having not taken issue with the delay of elections to Provincial Councils, including that of the Northern Province, however, presently have projected it as a major issue, at a time the current government has taken the initiative to appoint a Parliamentary Committee to make recommendations on this matter.

Noting that reports on Sri Lanka cited in the Resolution, including the OISL Report of 2015, constituted a mere subjective narrative of events including “desk-reviewed” information, the Ambassador said that these documents failed to reveal sources and were not verifiable. On the contrary, there was an abundance of verifiable evidence that has been ignored, contained in, interalia, the Lessons Learnt Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the ‘Paranagama Commission’, reports from the UN and international agencies including the UNDP, UNICEF and the ICRC, as well as information presented before the UK House of Lords by Lord Naseby challenging among other things the vastly exaggerated civilian casualty figures. Expert opinions including by international legal luminaries, as well as dispatches in real time by Colonel Anton Gash, Military

Attaché of the British High Commission in Colombo and statements by Lt. Col. Lawrence Smith who had served as Defense Attaché of the US Embassy during the last phase of the conflict, also contested this narrative.

Ambassador Aryasinha also observed that, having had Sri Lanka co-sponsor UN Resolution 30/1 in October 2015 and extracted a commitment that Sri Lanka will initiate an accountability mechanism which would include foreign judges and lawyers, which was unconstitutional, for 5 years neither the UN bodies nor the US and other proponents of this resolution, pressed the previous government to carry out its promises.

He said, calling for an “international mechanism” at this juncture is sinister, at a time the present Government has provided a credible transparent domestic process to address the concerns raised, by in January 2021 instituting a Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCOI), which had on 4 March 2021 “invited any person, persons or organizations to submit written representations or information or any other material which relates to the above for the Commission to inquire”. The Commission has been conducting hearings since April and heard testimony from witnesses.

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Response to the US Congressmen & Resolution 413 against Sri Lanka https://www.srilankancanadian.ca/index.php/2021/06/03/response-to-the-us-congressmen-resolution-413-against-sri-lanka/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=response-to-the-us-congressmen-resolution-413-against-sri-lanka Thu, 03 Jun 2021 03:00:27 +0000 https://www.srilankancanadian.ca/?p=3458 Resolution 413 was presented to the US Congress on 18 May 2021 by Deborah K...

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Resolution 413 was presented to the US Congress on 18 May 2021 by Deborah K Ross and 4 co-sponsors though 9 US Congressmen signed a letter to US Secretary of State on the same day. It was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Ironically, 4 of these signatories have direct links to pro-LTTE lobbies. Presumably Resolution 413 was to be about Sri Lanka’s conflict that ended on 18 May 2009 but the demands coming out of it, tells a different stor. The clauses and allegations no doubt were penned not by them and warrants to know the architect of this draft resolution.

Part 1: Questions for US Congressmen writing to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Sri Lanka

https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/questions-for-us-congressmen-writing-to-us-secretary-of-state-anthony-blinken-on-sri-lanka/

Lie 1:

Sri Lanka’s conflict that ended in May 2009 was between Government of Sri Lanka National Army and LTTE. Members or leaders of other armed Tamil groups were killed by LTTE during the 1980s and 1990s.

Lie 2:

Sri Lanka’s conflict was not ‘civil’ nor ‘ethnic but terrorist. With an armed group attempting to by gun carve part of Sri Lanka and hold control of it with the gun. LTTE were an all Tamil armed group but LTTE killed more Tamils than they care to admit not only in Sri Lanka but overseas as well. Overseas killings continue to this day. What are foreign governments doing to stop pro-LTTE groups threatening non-LTTE Tamils?

Lie 3:

Not only Tamil people, but every other citizen of Sri Lanka suffered while LTTE prevailed with their guns. There was never a day without a LTTE suicide mission, bombing or assassination attempt. All communities were displaced and casualties prevailed from all communities. It is unfair to presume & promote notion that only Tamils suffered.

Lie 4:

The Lessons Learned & Reconciliation Commission was appointed by the Government in March 2010. The UN Secretary General appointed a 3-member panel to personally appraise him in June 2010. There is no ground to claim that because the LLRC failed the UNSG appointed a panel.

Moreover, this panel was only a personally commissioned panel without mandate of either the UN General Assembly or the UN Security Council.

The UN must explain how a personally commissioned panel report can end up the basis for the OHCHR Head’s reports and the foundation of successive resolutions against a sovereign and UN member state.

Challenge to UNHRC:

The UNHRC must explain the legal basis for OHCHR’s report using a personally commissioned report as basis for reports against Sri Lanka.

The UNHRC must explain why the UNSG’s personally commissioned report was never tabled in the UNHRC, UNGA or UNSC

The UNHRC must provide evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and verifiable violations of international humanitarian laws instead of hiding ‘witnesses’ for 20 years and depending on media lobbying and lies to embarrass and humiliate a sovereign state and its national army. We accept that there may be one or two soldiers who may act reckless and outside of the line of orders, but this should not warrant for the UNHRC or any country to paint the entire army as war criminals. Bring out the evidence against these individual soldiers and demand action be taken against them only. We will all support this. But, we are not ready to have our armed forces branded as war criminals based on a legally questionable post-conflict process that has denied due process to Sri Lanka and has more questions than answers.

It is clear from every demand made in the successive UNHRC Resolutions and the coterie of co-sponsors headed by US that these demands are using the conflict as a guinea pig to continue their geopolitical arm twisting against Sri Lanka.

The US Congressmen may like to look at all the international tribunals held and realize the futility of these tribunals which have not brought any justice to the victims whatsoever. South Africa is a good example of no truth nor justice arising after millions have been spent. Thus, the allocation of funds for a similar exercise in Sri Lanka is going to be nothing but distribution of employment opportunities and to facilitate people to poke their nose into Sri Lanka’s internal affairs on the camouflage that they seek truth.

Lie 5:

There is no such ‘traditional Tamil homeland’and anyone claiming so must prove where Tamils evolved first (in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka) and next answer how there are 76million Tamils in Tamil Nadu (named as State for Tamils) and only 2million Tamils in Sri Lanka. Where Tamils evolved is the homeland of the Tamils. Tamils sought self-determination in Tamil Nadu first.

An ethnic group cannot demand 2 separate homelands in 2 separate sovereign states.

Lie 6:

On what evidence are these Congressmen claiming the North is ‘heavily militarized’ – this is the very nation that is refusing to remove troops from Okinawa, Japan, continues to maintain troops in Germany despite end of World War 2 and is illegally occupying countries with armed forces stationed since 2001.

The US Congressmen have completely ignored the US military attache of the US embassy Lt. Col. Lawrence Smith and the UK defense attache Lt. Colonel Anthony Gash’s despatches from January to May 2009 that completely demolishes the allegations by UNHRC.

https://www.ft.lk/opinion/US-and-UK-Military-Attachés-demolish-UNHRC-allegations-against-Sri-Lanka/14-713731

Authenticity of statements

The former Northern PC Chief Minister, former justice of the Supreme Court who lived all his life in South of Sri Lanka, was educated amongst Sinhalese and only after his 70plus years went to live in the North in 2013. He needs to survive in politics and to do so, he needs to play to the gallery by making statements to keep alive the LTTE /separatist lobby. The allegations he has made publicly is now facing a court case.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2020/09/03/law-order/227711/lawyer-lodges-police-complaint-against-wigneswaran

Lie 7:

The Provincial Council system was forced upon Sri Lanka following the forced signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987. No one in Sri Lanka asked for a PC system. The merged North-East Provincial Council was annulled following a unilateral declaration of independence in 1990 by Varatharaja Perumal who ran away to live in India. The merged N-E PC was demerged in 2006. While elections have been regularly held in other PCs, the terror of LTTE prevented elections in North & East. However, no sooner the East was liberated PC elections were held in 2008 and PC elections were held in North in 2013. The people of Sri Lanka however do not wish to continue the PCs primarily because it is a burden on the tax payer.  Regular elections are held for Parliament & to elect a President therefore the people’s democratic rights are very much prevalent.

According to IHS Markit, there are 85million surveillance cameras watching over US citizens (one for every 4.6 people in the US) Under the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, the U.S. Postal Service photographs the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States and these Congressmen are talking about surveillance in Sri Lanka.

With over 609421 covid deaths in US, the highest the world over, the US can hardly be proud of its record. Sri Lanka until October 2020 had just 13 deaths and the health workers and Sri Lanka Armed Forces, Police & Intel agencies were doing an admirable job handling covid.

Reminding UNHRC of the UN Charter

The UNHRC has been of late targeting smaller nations as a result of lobbying of powerful nations and powerful lobby groups. This runs contrary to the main UN Charter that assures non-interference into internal affairs of sovereign states.

It is unfortunate that while the very countries that accuse Sri Lanka, violate all international laws with impunity & immunity, they deem fit to question every internal system of Sri Lanka and demand that Sri Lanka only enforces what they desire, and they call this democracy and human rights!

Do the US Congressmen questioning about military appointments in Sri Lanka know that out of the 45 presidents of the United States, 29 had some military experience!

Do the US Congressmen now quoting the US role in the UNHRC Resolutions against Sri Lanka, also recall that the US walked out of the UNHRC calling it the ‘cesspit of political bias’.

Certainly, we want justice but that justice must cover all the victims without favor and it must begin by giving justice to the victims of the terroristsand that even includes all of the other Tamil militant groups that were virtually annihilated by the LTTE.

The commemorations that the LTTE lobbies attend with fanfare does not include mourning for the dead of other Tamil militant groups. In fact, mourning them is taboo.

All of the commemorations taking place in US, UK, Canada, France etc featuring pro-LTTE groups proudly displaying the LTTE flag alongside the US National Flag, the Union Jack etc are mourning LTTE dead not Tamil civilian dead.All of the commemorations taking place to which US, UK, European, Australian, Canadian MPs attend are to mourn the LTTE dead not Tamil civilian dead. This is what makes a mockery of banning LTTE by their governments. It is not that everyone does not know this. Everyone knows this but it is a good geopolitical arm twisting tool.

Therefore, it is the LTTE that must face the war crimes charges. They took to guns. They chose their fate. They were given 3 opportunities to surrender. They refused to lay down arms and surrender. With this opportunity given and denied from January 2009 onwards the war ended and the humanitarian rescue operation began until all of the Tamils taken hostage and kept as human shields were brought to safety on 15 May 2009.The remaining 3 days was between the LTTE fighters and the Sri Lankan National Army. If anyone claims that during the last 3 days some 40,000 died – then these were LTTE fighters and too bad they met their waterloo by choice. Anyone getting killed after 15 May 2009 by Sri Lanka’s troops were LTTE and not Tamil civilianswho chose to fight till their last man. Let no one forget that some 12,000 LTTE in civilian clothing did surrender and this included 594 child soldiers who were all given a presidential pardon, rehabilitated and returned to their families.

But if foreign governments and foreign politicians & even the UNHRC wish to cry over LTTE dead & hold international commemorations – we won’t stop them because it is a hilarious sight to watch!

Nevertheless, continuing the demand for justice, what the people of Sri Lanka want is for the GoSL to hold an investigation into every individual and political group that had links with the LTTE & begin with the TNA and hold them guilty of treason and declare them traitors to the nation for aiding and abetting terrorism and separatism via the 6thamendment.

As for the UN mechanisms for tribunals and truth seeking, we seriously question how far any of their tribunals have manifested in providing any justice except giving employment and creating opportunities to poke the noses into internal affairs of countries for further geopolitical interference. Isn’t this the real reason for the conflict that ended in May 2009 to continue politically? When the people are Sri Lanka are getting on with their lives. When the Tamils are enjoying a developed North, when former LTTE are also starting a new life – who seems to want to reverse all this? The LTTE lobbies living overseas and their political cronies overseas.

Are LTTE lobbies influencing foreign governments and foreign politicians or are foreigngovernments and foreign politicians manipulating LTTE lobbies for their geopolitical agendas?We all know the answer – its nothing but a ‘you scratch our backs, we will scratch yours’.

If the UNHRC was doing its job properly, it should have investigated and taken action against all the illegal invasions & arming and training of terror groups & exporting them to countries to cause mayhem instead of henpecking a country that solved its terrorist problem by its own armed forces, a fete no other national army has been able to do.

Let jealousy and revenge not tarnish the image of Sri Lanka’s national army.

By all means, let the personally commissioned Darusman Report be tabled in the UNGA, UNSC together with the OISL report and afford an opportunity for us to present counter arguments and for the UN legal team to answer one simple question – was the process of UNHRC Resolutions legal & was due process followed by the UNHRC and OHCHR Head and Office.

 Shenali D Waduge

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Notice of Constitutional question against Bill 104, Tamil Genocide Education Week Act filed in Superior court today! https://www.srilankancanadian.ca/index.php/2021/05/10/notice-of-constitutional-question-against-bill-104-tamil-genocide-education-week-act-filed-in-superior-court-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=notice-of-constitutional-question-against-bill-104-tamil-genocide-education-week-act-filed-in-superior-court-today Mon, 10 May 2021 13:38:07 +0000 https://www.srilankancanadian.ca/?p=3203 IMMEDIATE RELEASE Notice of Constitutional question against Bill 104, Tamil Genocide Education Week Act filed...

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Notice of Constitutional question against Bill 104, Tamil Genocide Education Week Act filed in Superior court today!

Case# CV-21-00661995-0000 dated 10th May 2021.

Bill 104, Tamil Genocide Education Week Act, 2021 unconstitutional and should stop force and effect in Ontario, the Notice of Constitutional Question filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on May 10, 2021. Ontario Attorney General was named as a respondent to the application.

Alleged Tamil Genocide has not been decided with any competent legal authority globally, such as the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice. Further UN has not initiated any action against the alleged Tamil Genocide due to lack of evidence. The Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills which reviewed the bill after 2nd reading, did a “clause by clause” review on the 4th of May night, without proper consultation from experts nor the enormous amount of public deputation requests that were before the committee. The Bill was put forward for the 3rd reading without fact checking on 5th of May. The narrative of the controversial bill recognized one party over another in a conflict where the insurgent group LTTE Tamil Terrorists are still banned in Canada. There was also an allegation that the committee chair MPP Logan Kanapahti acted in conflict of interest as he was also a promoter of the same the same bill, in an attempt to glorify the LTTE Tamil Terrorists as freedom fighters to be taught in Ontario education system.

Applicant Dr. Neville Hewage, an adjunct professor and Research Fellow at the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law at Laurentian University, Canada, argued that Ontario has no jurisdiction to decide Genocide and create, pass or amend the law. He further argued that Genocide is a criminal matter and has the only jurisdiction with the Federal government. He also said Ontario Government has the power to determine aspects of Education but not the Genocide.

The inclusion of the mythical Tamil Genocide into the education system has serious negative consequences. He noted that the primary purpose of Bill 104 is to promote the mythical Tamil Genocide and influence Canadian asylum policy.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a proscribed terrorist organization in Canada, engaged with armed conflict with the Government of Sri Lanka to create a mono-ethnic state living in North and East of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka government militarily eliminated LTTE supreme leader, senior leadership and cadre and ended the armed conflict on May 18, 2009. Sri Lankan government rescued 295,000 Tamils used as a human shield by LTTE Tamil terrorists at the end of the armed conflict and also rehabilitated 13,000 LTTE cadre.

Mythical Tamil Genocide is pro-LTTE Tamil Terrorist propaganda and seriously harms Ontario’s diversity and ethnic harmony. The applicant alleged the Ontario Ford government used a cheap political approach to regain his political bankruptcy.

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City of Markham sidelines on “mythical Tamil Genocide” Memorial proposals after uproar of facts from Sri Lankans! https://www.srilankancanadian.ca/index.php/2021/04/26/city-of-markam-sidelines-on-mythical-tamil-genocide-memorial-proposals-after-uproar-of-facts-from-sri-lankans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-of-markam-sidelines-on-mythical-tamil-genocide-memorial-proposals-after-uproar-of-facts-from-sri-lankans Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:12:48 +0000 https://www.srilankancanadian.ca/?p=3106 Markham – 26th April 2021. In a heavily debated General Committee Meeting, the council has...

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Markham – 26th April 2021. In a heavily debated General Committee Meeting, the council has sidelined on the proposed “Tamil Genocide” Memorial as per the 6th of April motion.

Deputation requests were seen 7 from pro-seperatist Tamil Diaspora highlighting “Tamil Genocide is not recognised by Federal Government and United Nations, but Markham has to recognise Tamil Genocide” narrative. Few of the attendees had links to Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam seeking seperate state in Sri Lanka, attempting to connect Markham into a political tug of war, outside of the mandate of City of Markham to recognise a mythical genocide according to folk tales citing unjustified hearsay accounts of casualty figures alone.

A highly debated meeting had to be moderated by Deputy Mayor stating “This is an open municipality and welcomes people to speak to this council”. He also mentioned that “we don’t get people into trouble for speaking with us, not addressing Markham council” and upheld proud Markham policy of open dialog and understanding.

Responses were seen in Twitter, requesting that the councillor Asman stepdown from the position.

Other Tweets questioned the City of Markham to be informed more of the factual information pertaining to Sri Lankan conflict.

It was evident from all the pro-eelam deputants that non of them disclosed that the unsafe monument in concern was a local issue to Jaffna and that it was also rebuilt recently as a peace monument.

Consul General of Sri Lanka in Toronto Mr. Kapila S. Jayaweera appearing as a deputant presented facts to Council which in turn referred the matter to be investigated at a later date and assigned a low priority given the current priorities.

Closing remarks were made by Mayor Scarpitti acknowledge the concerns raised by the pro-seperatist Tamils present and reached out to the rest of the Tamil community. He re-iterated that “City of Markham is a city that welcome and support all people in Markham”.

Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition was included in requests sent to City of Markham by Markham residents to protest the April 6th Motion. Many residents complained of the untruthful nature of the motion as well as re-iterated the need for priority alignment given the current COVID-19 pandemic.

We would like to thank everyone for the shared service to the community. Any questions or concerns, please email to info@srilankancanadian.ca.

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