OTTAWA — Federal MPs voted to formally label China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslims a genocide Monday, without the support of the Liberal cabinet.
All opposition MPs who participated in the vote as well as most Liberal MPs, including Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Oliphant, voted in favour of the Conservative motion introduced last Thursday. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau abstained on the record while the rest of his cabinet colleagues were absent.
“I abstain on behalf of the Government of Canada,” said Garneau in the House of Commons.
