Mr. Speaker, the debate today has been a very high level debate, one which restores to the public the sense that this is a place to deal with important and significant issues not only for our own country but for all of humanity.
I particularly appreciated the comment from my colleague opposite concerning the need for this to not just be a day in memory of tragic events throughout the history of mankind but a day of dedication to action.
I want to pay tribute to my colleague from Don Valley North who first brought forward this type of motion at this time last year. He is quite gratified by the nature of the debate that has taken place in the House.
There is no question genocide in a number of forms throughout history has been one of the primary manifestations of the inhumanity people can exercise toward one another.
I ask my colleague if he would not agree that crimes against humanity go beyond genocide, that they take numerous forms. Certainly war crimes would be some of those. The deliberate starvation of people and the deliberate disruption of people from their homes would also be part of crimes against humanity. These are all tragedies.
I prefer the wording before us in the amendment. It refers much more broadly to crimes against humanity and to the tragedy of such events. I wonder why the member wants to focus in by narrowing the description to genocide.