UPDATED: 2007-02-01 01:20:43 MST
By CP
OTTAWA -- A former member of Parliament and an immigration lawyer are calling on the Foreign Affairs Department to issue an advisory warning Canadians off travelling to China for organ transplants.
Former Liberal MP David Kilgour and David Matas, an immigration lawyer and senior legal counsel to B'nai Brith Canada, say they have overwhelming evidence Chinese officials are killing Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting organs for transplant.
Xiaohua Wang, an engineer living in Montreal, says he and other practitioners of Falun Gong -- a discipline banned by China's communist government -- were subjected to suspicious organ examinations while imprisoned in a labour camp for two years.
Matas and Kilgour say they have documented cases of Canadians from Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver travelling to China for transplants.
They say Foreign Affairs should tell patients headed to China the organs they receive are likely to be acquired by unethical means.