On behalf of the Province of Alberta, I am pleased to extend best wishes to all practitioners across Canada as you celebrate Falun Dafa Week.

The members in your organization are to be commended for seeking to improve their minds and bodies through gentle exercise and meditation. Reflecting on ourselves and the world around us can further our understanding of each other and, in turn, strengthen our communities.

Integrating the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance into your lives will enhance your quality of life. These qualities have been engrained into the fabric of our province because of the high value Albertans place on accepting and honouring different cultures, religions, and ways of life.

Best wishes to all for continued peace and harmony in the coming year.

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Ralph Klein

August 21 - 27, 2000

As we are living in the era of the global village, facilitated communications and travel in planetary space gradually bring us to share cultures. Around the world, humans lend a helping hand so that today will be better than yesterday. Among them, are peoples whose origins go back thousands of years. As in all teaching, the most ancient transmit to the more youthful. Thus, we recognize in the East a wisdom that the West can benefit from.

Spreading an exercise practice that unites the whole being with the entirety of the universe while augmenting the proper sentiment of existence, that is what Falun Dafa proposes, also known as Falun Gong.

In this Falun Dafa week, I wish, to all those who have adopted this gentle practice, to shine and express the very goal of their interior search: harmony, the path of health and the joy leading to the tranquil liberation of self.

Lise Thibault

Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec

Falun Dafa Week, from August 21st to the 27th, 2000

August 15, 2000

I am pleased to extend my greetings to all those who will celebrate Falun Dafa Week from August 21st to August 27th, 2000.

It is important that organizations, such as yours, have the freedom to practice their beliefs in Canadian society.

I wish to send my best whishes to all your members.

Yours sincerely,

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Vivienne Poy

August 11, 2000

As a Member of Parliament fro the Government of Canada, representing the riding of Okanagan- Shuswap, I would extend my sincerest best wishes to everyone celebrating Falun Dafa Week in Canada.

I would encourage you in your week of improving the mind and body of Canadians everywhere through exercise and meditation. Your goals of furthering honesty, courtesy, loyalty and unselfishness will go a long way in lessening the negative impact of those who do not hold to these virtues.

Society needs to have these values restored.

Best wishes,

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Darrel Stinson, M.P.

Okanagan-Shuswap

I am pleased to extend greetings on behalf of the New Democratic Party of Canada to all celebrating Falun Dafa Week.

Followers of Falun Dafa strive for inner peace and seek to live in peace with themselves and in harmony with the universe, learning compassion for others.

hose who cultivate their minds, bodies and spirits in accordance with Falun Dafa principles help to create a more open and tolerant society.

I wish all members of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada all the best during Falun Dafa Week.

Yours very truly,

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Gordon S. Earle, MP Halifax West

NDP Multiculturalism Spokesperson

August 16, 2000

On the occasion of Falun Dafa Week, August 21-27, 2000, I am pleased to offer my greetings and best wishes as you celebrate together. I trust you will continue to be successful as you strive to make the world a better place.

Sincerely,

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Grant McNally, MP

Dewdney-Alouette, BC

22 August, 2000

I wish to extend my greetings to you and all those who will be celebrating Falun Dafa Week.

I believe it is important to preserve one's personal heritage. Your association aids hundreds of people from all races through the ancient Chinese principle of Zhen-Shan-Ren. The principle of Truthfulness- Benevolence-Forbearance, while a piece of Chinese cultural heritage, has helped people around the world to cultivate their mind, body and spirit by leading a more serene and focused life. In today high stress and high tech world, your association provided an outlet for those seeking a source of personal relief and accomplishment.

Congratulations to all of those celebrating Falun Dafa Week.

Sincerely,

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Inky Nark, M.P.

Chief Opposition Critic Citizenship and Immigration

August 2000

It is my privilege to extend greetings to all during Falun Dafa Week, August 21 to August 27, 2000.

The unifying forces inherent in the teachings of the Falun Dafa practitioners are to be commended. On an individual level, the tireless pursuit to establish unity among the mind, body and spirit has helped to improve the physical and spiritual well-being of countless people around the world. As such, this practice has brought together over 100 million people from more than 40 'countries - and from all walks of life - through a common belief in truth, compassion and tolerance, qualities that enrich our society as a whole.

My sincere best wishes to everyone as you celebrate the occasion of Falun Dafa Week.

Yours very truly,

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Jerry Pickard, M.P. Chatham-Kent Essex

CONGRTULATIONS TO All

Celebrating Falun Dafa Week

With my best wishes.

August 21-27, 2000

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Lou Sekora, Member of Parliament

Port Moody - Coquiltlam - Port Coquiltlam

August 2000

Dear friends,

Falun Dafa Week presents a unique opportunity not only for Falun Dafa practitioners but for all of us to celebrate the true meaning of life, to reassess our own personal goals and to reflect on the noblest qualities of women and men.

On this occasion, however, it gives me particular pleasure to extend warm wishes for health, peace and happiness to all Falun Dafa practitioners in my riding of Notre-Dame-De-Grace-Lachine, and across Canada.

Sincerely,

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Marlene Jennings, MP Notre-Dame-De-Grace - Lachine

August 18, 2000

Friends,

I am pleased to send greetings to all those celebrating Falun Dafa Week.

The men and women who follow the precepts of Falun Dafa have received worldwide recognition for their pursuit of the principles of Zhen-Shan-Ren, or truthfulness, benevolence and forbearance.

While there are Falun Dafa practitioners around the world including a large following in Canada, a great number of followers are in China, where peaceful pursuit has met with brutal and illegitimate repression. As Canadians, we support the practitioners of Falun Dafa in their peaceful desire to improve their moral standard while deepening understanding of life, humanity and the universe.

In solidarity,

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Svend Robinson, MP

Burnaby-Douglas

FALUN DAFA

On behalf of the people of south surry - white rock - langley, i offer our heartfelt congratulations on your celebration of falun dafa week august 21th-27th, 2000.

We acknowldge the many individuals in this constituency who support and practice falun dafa in their lives.

Our very best wishes to all those who are celebrating this special week.

Sincerely,

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Val Meredith, M.P.

South Surry - White Rock - Langley

Congratulations to the practitioners and leaders of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada as you celebrate a week of exercise and meditation.

I salute the volunteers who are contributing their valuable time in support of Falun Dafa programs. During this special week, many individuals will learn the benefits of this apolitical and popular exercise.

On behalf of City Council, I applaud the Falun Dafa Association of Canada for fostering and contributing to the spiritual growth of our community.

Best wishes for a memorable and meaningful week.

Yours truly,

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Bill Smith

Mayor

August 11, 2000

Welcome Message from Mayor Merle Nicholds

On behalf of the city of Kanata, it is indeed a pleasure for me to extend my best wishes to the participants attending the Falun Dafa workshops, seminars and group exercises taking place in the region of Ottawa-Carton from August 21st to August 27th, 2000.

Please accept my warmest welcome to the Falun Dafa Practitioners across Canada. I hope you have a very enjoyable and successful event.

Warmest Regards,

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Merle NicholdsMayor

Your correspondence respecting the practice of Falun Dafa (Gong) was referred to Windsor City Council at its August 21, 2000 meeting.

On behalf of Mayor Hurst and the Member of Council, I am pleased to provide you with this letter of support for "Canada Falun Dafa Week".

Please extend the greeting of Council to everyone who practices this advanced traditional Chinese method of improving the mind and body through gentle exercise and meditation.

Yours very truly,

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Brenda Andreatta

Deputy Clerk

Sandra Pupatello, M.P.P.

Windsor West

August 21, 2000

Dear Participants of the Windsor celebration of Falun Dafa Week:

It is with pleasure that I send you my greetings for the Falun Dafa Week celebrations here in Windsor, August 21st through the 27th.

The practice of Falun Gong, a comprehensive exercise and meditation program for the body, mind and spirit which leads to a healthier, more spiritual individual is a benefit to us all, not just your members.

I welcome all of you to Windsor, and extend my best wishes for a very successful week.

Sincerely,

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Sandra Pupatello, MPP

Windsor-West

WHEREAS Falun Dafa, also know as Falun Gong, is a traditional Chinese qigong (self-cultivation) practice designed to improve the mind and body through exercise and meditation. It espouses the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, taking these as guidance for conduct and thought. Merely eight years since its public introduction, falun dafa has spread to more than forty countries around the world and has brought healthier physics and mental benefits to more than one hundred million people;

AND WHEREAS enabling countless individuals to turn away from self-destructive thinking and behavior, such as drug, alcohol and tobacco use, falun dafa has equipped people with the understanding necessary to enduring the hardest and unjust of tribulations without resorting to violence. It is apolitical and is a popular exercise that improves people's health and spiritual well being. The practitioners of falun dafa have remained true to the teachings of Mr. Li Hongzhi, who has worked tirelessly to convey falun dafa from China to the rest of the world and has introduced the lives of countless people in many countries, earning an international reputation.

NOW THEREFORE I, Dave Hunt, Mayor of the City of Stratford, do hereby proclaim August 19^th, 2000 as "Falun Dafa Day".

In the City of Stratford.

Dated this 8^th day of August, 2000.

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Dave Hunt, Mayor