MPs have voted unanimously to support a report that calls on the federal government to expand existing immigration measures to accommodate Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims who are fleeing the repression of the Chinese communist regime.
The motion, introduced by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, was adopted on Oct. 25. MPs voted 258 to 0 in support of a recent report from the House Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration urging the government to provide safe haven for the Uyghurs in China who are targets of “an ongoing genocide.”
The report also noted that many victims who fled to third countries “are at continuing risk of detention and deportation back to China, where they face serious risk of arbitrary detention, torture, and other atrocities.”…