Mr. Speaker, today, April 27, marks Holocaust Memorial Day. As the Prime Minister of Israel said, it has been 50 years since the doors of hell were opened.
In Israel and around the world humanity remembers and pays tribute to six million Jewish people, including one million children, who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust of 1939-45.
This is the precise reason I introduced a motion on April 3, 1995, M-282, to designate April 20-27 a week to remember crimes against humanity. At that time I called on members of the House to view the Holocaust and genocide as more than crimes against one group, but to see them as crimes against humanity.
I call on Canada and the international community to oppose any oppression in all its forms, regardless of race or religion, and to defend the rights of victims of hatred and crime.