Heather McPherson at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On March 28th, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 28th, 2022 / 12:15 p.m.

NDP

Heather McPherson NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

Thank you.

This might again be asking you to guesstimate on the future, but we did have the international human rights subcommittee declare a genocide. We did have the foreign affairs committee declare a genocide. We did have the Parliament of Canada declare a genocide.

If the commissioner does find concrete evidence of genocide, will the Canadian government be prepared to acknowledge that there is a genocide happening against the Uighur people?

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