Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto and the Taiwanese Canadian Community Service Association (TCCSA) on September 22 jointly held a seminar on crime prevention for Taiwanese students who traveled to Toronto with working holiday visas. Superintendent David McCormack of 52 Division, Toronto Police Service and PC Simon Yang were invited as the speakers. They told the students the efforts by Canadian police in safeguarding safety of foreign students. The students in the seminar responded enthusiastically and altered their misconception that a great distance exists between the police and international students. All the participants of the seminar said that they benefitted a lot from the event.
The seminar was opened with welcoming remarks by Ambassador Rong-chuan Wu, Director General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto, who thanked the Toronto police for protecting safety of Taiwanese students studying in Toronto and promised that his office would continue to cooperate with Toronto police in helping the students to learn more about circumstance in Canada and their safety issue.
Superintendent McCormack, in his response, stressed that the Toronto Police Service is committed to protecting all international students studying here, no matter where they come from for they all enjoy equal rights in Canada. Moreover, Superintendent McCormack assured the Taiwanese students that they did not have to be deterred by language barriers in communicating with the police for Toronto police provide service of more than 130 languages. PC Simon Yang, for his part, provided some examples of personal safety issue to remind the student of the importance of keeping contacts with the police and the school.
In closing remarks, DG Wu thanked TCCSA for joining TECO in organizing this successful event and he believed that every student in attendance must learn a lot about how to protect himself or herself while pursuing their studies in Canada. DG Wu also promised to offer more similar seminars in the future to help more Taiwanese students and young people on working holiday program to learn more about their rights and safety while staying in Toronto.
