“This country was built on a genocide and I don’t celebrate Canada Day”. Mumilaaq Qaqqaq (in the pic), member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing Nunavut, announced it today on social networks. (more…)
Muhammad Ali Bukhari, CNNG News, Toronto
[GTranslate]On Monday, 266 out of Canada’s 338 members of parliament voted against this motion. Although most cabinet members were absent from voting. The House of Commons also explicitly blames for the country’s indiscriminate killings of Uighurs and other Turkish-speaking Muslims in China.
The said proposal was made in Parliament by the opposition Conservative Party. It said China’s state action in the Xinjiang region was tantamount to genocide in accordance with UN policy adopted in 1948. In addition to the Conservative members, a significant number of ruling Liberal party MPs voted in favour of the proposal. The final vote count showed that 266 MPs present voted without any opposition, only two MPs have remained officially absent. (more…)
