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House of Commons of Canada

Lower house of Canada's Parliament.

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House of Commons motions on Xinjiang, 2021 22 Feb 2021 passed an opposition motion 266 to 0; the Foreign Minister abstained for the government Primary record 1

House of Commons motions on Xinjiang, 2021 voted 266 to 0 on 22 February 2021 for an opposition motion that recognized a genocide and asked the government to adopt that position Primary record 1 2

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Vote No. 56: Opposition Motion (Religious minorities in China), 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session, House of Commons of Canada, 22 Feb 2021. Primary record
Agreed To Yea: 266 Nay: 0
call on the government to officially adopt this position
the House, therefore, recognize that a genocide is currently being carried out by the People's Republic of China against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims
MPs vote to label China's persecution of Uighurs a genocide, CBC News, 22 Feb 2021. Scholarship & press
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and almost all of his cabinet colleagues were absent for the vote.
When it was his turn, he said he abstained "on behalf of the Government of Canada."

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