Terry Glavin: Genocide vote puts Justin Trudeau and his cabinet to shame The motion is non-binding, but that’s only because Trudeau and his cabinet ministers, who abstained from the vote en masse, have decided they won’t be bound by it
Author of the article: Terry Glavin
Publishing date: Feb 24, 2021 • February 24, 2021 • 6 minute read • Protesters gather outside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa on Feb. 22, as the House prepared to vote on an Opposition motion calling on Canada to recognize China s actions against ethnic Muslim Uighurs as genocide. Photo by Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has finally come up against the House of Commons in a long-postponed 266-0 revolt against his signature “golden decade” entente with the Chinese Communist Party, the prime minister’s diehard fan base should take no consolation in the procedural classification of the vote as “non-binding.”
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