MPs have voted unanimously in favour of a motion that calls on the federal government to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs in Canada over the next two years, in an effort to support those fleeing an ongoing genocide by Beijing.
Introduced by Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi, the private member’s motion was passed in Parliament on Feb. 1 with a unanimous vote of 322-0.
“What just happened was historic,” Zuberi said in a press conference after the vote. “This was the first time that cabinet pronounced itself on the issue of the Uyghurs.”
The vote comes almost two years after the House adopted a motion on Feb. 22, 2021, that recognized the persecution against the Uyghurs by the People’s Republic of China as an act of genocide….