Bob Rae, Canada's special envoy to Myanmar, is set to discuss the Rohingya crisis with the prime minister of Bangladesh on Monday following the G7 summit.
Rae has been an outspoken proponent of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.
Since August 2017, an estimated 700,000 Rohingya have fled the Buddhist-majority country for squalid refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh amid widespread violence that the United Nations human rights chief has called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

The meeting comes after it was recently announced that Myanmar and the UN had signed an agreement that might lead to the repatriation of some of those refugees.
That agreement, however, has been widely panned by the Rohingya for failing to address one of their key demands: Myanmar citizenship.
“I can't quite describe adequately to you the extent of the humanitarian crisis and the sense that we are in a desperate race against time to make sure people are safe,” Rae told the Senate human rights committee during an emotional testimony on Jun 6.
“The government of Myanmar is clearly saying citizenship is an issue for later,” Rae, a former Liberal MP and Ontario premier, told CTV News after his Senate testimony.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in Canada as one of 12 world leaders invited to join an outreach session at the G7 summit. Hasina also attended a dinner hosted by Governor General Julie Payette on Friday and met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders on Saturday.
Mentioning Bangladesh as an important part of this issue, Rae said, “It’s not just a place where people are hanging out until they wait to go back. It’s a country that has been very, very seriously affected by the arrival of so many refugees.”
Those refugees, Rae added, are now in even more danger as Bangladesh faces its annual monsoon season.
He wanted to explore with Bangladeshi premier on the issues related to the course of action to overcome monsoons difficulties and develop the physical condition of the camps.
Canada has committed $300 million over the next three years to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Still, that’s a number that Rae would like to see doubled, as per his recommendations in his report on the Rohingya.