August 9, 2022
Scarborough- Canada
In a letter sent via email to the Indian Minister of External Affairs Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his counterparts of the QUAD nations and Canada, the Global Tamil Council a Canadian Tamil advocacy group urged, to take concrete measures to ensure peace and stability in the Indian Ocean and indo-Pacific regions.
“We also express our solidarity with India and the allied powers to protect and uphold the international rule-based order.” The group further said.
Yuan Wang 5, the “Chinese scientific research vessel” that conducts satellite control and research tracking in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean region,” is scheduled to berth at the Hambantota port of Sri Lanka on August 11, 2022.
It is in this backdrop the GTC expressed its concern over the docking of the space and satellite tracking vessel. 
In a separate email sent to Melanie Joly, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the GTC said, “As a Canadian Tamil advocacy organization, the GTC has the moral obligation to call upon the government of Canada, to act swiftly and render its fullest support to the QUAD nations in this matter.”
“Further, we are also obliged to bring to your notice, that Canada as a CORE-GROUP member with regard to Sri Lanka in the UNHRC and the host country for the largest Tamil Diaspora, has to factor in, any illiberal military exercises in the Indo-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, that will culminate in further deteriorating the already frail livelihood of the people in the Tamil Nation of Sri Lanka, that is already under the excessive occupation of the Sri Lankan armed forces.”