According to Wikipedia, high ranking officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and even Confucius Institutes admit that CIs are part of the Chinese government’s overseas propaganda machine.

In Canada, McMaster University, Université de Sherbrooke, Toronto District School Board, Brock University, and the New Brunswick Provincial Government have all cut ties with CI.

Saint Mary’s University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has one Confucius Institute that is still operating.

In one incident in New Brunswick, a teacher teaching Chinese who refused to refer to Taiwan as an independent state after a student’s complaint. As well, other topics in Chinese history were reported to be off-limits.

Around the world, there is common consensus on banning Confucius Institutes, especially after the following was revealed (for details please see references below):

•CI is a propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Government

•CI promotes communist propaganda in textbooks and cultural events

•Evidence that CI discriminates against teachers in their hiring practices

•CI plays the role of a spy agency for the Chinese Communist Party

Confucius Institutes advocate blind trust in the CCP. Shockingly, they disseminate these ideologies to children, teens, and young adults around the world, and purposefully avoid topics in history such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. They fulfill the goals of CI’s founders and executives, as they state in the following:

“Confucius Institutes are an important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up”

- Li, Changchun, former head of Central Propaganda Department of CCP

“Confucius Institutes, as many people are asking, are an important part of (China’s) soft power. Because we want to expand our (Chinese communist party’s) influences, we do not deny (this statement). We agree.”

- Xu, Lin, Director-General of Hanban and Chief Executive of Confucius Institute Headquarters, 2010

The CCP spreads hatred by inoculating Chinese people with its propaganda. They brainwash people to believe that anyone who challenges the CCP is criticizing China and the Chinese peoples. Such propaganda has resulted in significant tensions between Chinese who are brainwashed by the CCP, and the rest of the world, including Chinese people who do not stand with the CCP. In the current pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party continues to spread lies overseas about the true situation of the virus which has caused the COVID-19 virus to spread into 188 countries and the death of 430,613 as of today, in addition to the tremendous losses for the world’s economy.

The CCP is using Canadian’s education system as a means of spreading its propaganda which runs counter to the universal values that human beings in the world should follow. It has been brainwashing us to believe that CIs are for our own benefits, but in fact we are the real victims. All the while they continue to cover-up the real agenda of Confucius Institutes. It is not only a violation of our rights for transparency but a real security threat to the safety of our multicultural communities.

We hereby demand the Confucius Institute at Saint Mary’s University be closed, following the example of many places around the world.

Please stand together with the world to stop the Chinese Communist Party from pushing their propaganda and brainwashing young Canadians – on our own soil. We must protect our democracy and freedom of thought, belief, and conscience for the next generation, and for the future of Canada.