Most of the place in the building, which houses a 50-year-old Chinese family service of the Great Montreal, is now empty.
According to the director of the XIXI LI, most of the events ceased after RCMP Investigation of reports on the outposts of the Chinese government in Canada.
“We lost about 70 percent of financing,” she told Global News from her office in the center in the Chinese quarter of the city. “This is from 700,000 to 800,000 dollars a year.”
Now they hope to start turning everything, as RCMP has just announced that he had closed the center investigation in the Chinese quarter of Montreal and the Sino-Québec de la Rive-Sud in Brossard on the southern coast of Montreal.
“Well, my personal reaction is relief,” said May Chiu, the director of the Chinese quarter. “It was long, two and a half years long, when the community suffers from terrible access to social services.”
But Lee and other members of the Chinese community say that the damage has already been caused.
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The investigation was part of a wider investigation, which began in 2022, in the reports that the Chinese-quotes were threatened and intimidated by people associated with the Chinese government.
Both organizations were identified as housing police sections of the Chinese government, but the charges were not put forward.
Lee, who is also headed by the Brossard Center, as well as other officials deny that any such activity took place, even if they and others who supported them did not object to the investigation.
The problem for them and legal experts in the community is the RCMP behavior in the public with the investigation.
“Doing this, in fact, they already indignant and cause harm to organizations that are supposedly investigated,” explained lawyer and activist Walter Chi-Yang Tom.
As a result of the approach of the federal police service, Lee says that both organizations had to reduce services to thousands of customers and employees by 70 percent.
“We had about 30 employees around (Chinese quarter),” she said. “We have five right now.”
Lee accuses all this of a loss of funding caused by stigma created by charges, as a result of which people, government and financial authorities are kept away.
Chiu agrees and notes that even the mood in the Chinese community was tarnished.
“This caused all these suffering and disunity and suspicion among community members,” she said. “People did not know who to trust.”
She and others feel that instead of reassuring members of the community, the RCMP approach had the opposite effect – forcing people to feel less safe.
They fear that although the police closed the case, it will take years to restore the reputation of groups, as well as such a necessary financing.
Strength refused to comment.
Although the case is currently closed, public organizations and LI want to move forward with a claim for diplomasion in the amount of $ 4.9 million. USA against RCMP.
Groups believe that this is the only way to get answers.
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