That's a good question. Someone mentioned this earlier in the first panel. I think the key is that we don't want to appease current leadership for fear of something that may happen in the future.
I would also note that, in terms of Canada's obligation to act, even if we don't go ahead, even if the government doesn't call it genocide, the Government of Canada, in my opinion, would still be obligated to take certain actions to prevent it, because the obligations don't arise just when Canada calls it a genocide. The obligations actually arise as soon as a state party to the genocide convention knows or should know that there is a serious risk of genocide; that's from the International Court of Justice case in 2007 on Serbia and Bosnia.
In terms of the effect, I'm not sure that takes anything away from this. On the flip side, if Canada does recognize the genocide and then the TPLF goes ahead and commits its own atrocity crimes, nothing would be stopping Canada from recognizing those atrocity crimes at that point.
Does that answer the question?