Mr. Speaker, I am very concerned about my colleague's brush-off and minimization of the current crisis of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls.
My question, however, is this: Does the member feel that the UN genocide convention also applies in real time in Canada to the forced sterilization of women that is occurring right now, as stated in article II(d), “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”, and also to the events that occurred in residential schools, as stated in article II(e), “forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”?
Is the member committed to applying definitions of genocide to our own backyard when acts of genocide are occurring?