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http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Specials/20071026/dalai_lama_071026/
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October's visit will be the Dalai Lama's sixth trip to Canada and his third to Ottawa since he began travelling to the West in the 1970s:
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. \. S% f, E3 W! O: N# s * The Dalai Lama first visited Canada in 1980 and was met by then-governor general Ed Schreyer.. B) f& j6 b) y# k, U
* In 1990, he visited Ottawa for the first time and met former secretary of state for multiculturalism Gerry Weiner on the government's behalf.1 B4 ~6 }3 S U2 F
* The Dalai Lama's 1990 visit prompted an amendment to Sino-Canadian diplomatic policy, which was officially established in 1970. Canada continued to recognize the People's Republic of China as the official government but would take no position on territorial claims.; @ ?$ {+ t& X9 p
* In 2004, former prime minister Paul Martin courted controversy by becoming the first Canadian leader to meet the Dalai Lama. The one-hour talk on human rights took place at the home of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa. Martin's predecessor, Jean Chrtien, refused such a meeting.
5 q8 C& x- B. j; Y * The Dalai Lama was personally recognized when he last visited Canada in 2006 and received an honorary Canadian citizenship -- a measure protested by Chinese officials. He joins Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, Nelson Mandela and, most recently, Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in receiving the honour. |
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