Retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire said self-interest is what’s obstructing the Canadian government from calling out Beijing over its genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. “Self-interest and a lack of wanting to take the risk of holding accountable great nations who do horrible things is still prevalent,” Dallaire said in an interview on CBC’s Power and Politics program on Wednesday. “You’re either a great nation that believes in its values and in what its flag stands for, and what so many have died to defend it … you’re either that, or you’re not.” Dallaire’s comments come after the majority of MPs last month voted in favour of a motion tabled by the Conservatives to officially recognize that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities constitutes a genocide. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet did not show up, except for Foreign Affairs Minister Marc …