{"id":14911,"date":"2016-08-02T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2016-08-02T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:24:23","slug":"canada-must-stand-with-allies-on-isis-ambrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/canada-must-stand-with-allies-on-isis-ambrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada must stand with allies on ISIS: Ambrose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada must stand with our allies and recognize and condemn ISIS\u2019 actions for what they really are \u2013 genocide.
\nThe stories from Syria and Iraq are too chilling. ISIS is systematically exterminating Christians, Assyrians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims, and other countless religious minorities in these regions. From \u201csex-slave markets,\u201d to bidding on Yazidi girls as if they were cattle, to regularly beating, whipping, burning and raping women and girls \u2013 it is absolutely disturbing and heartbreaking that this is happening in 2016.
\nThis is why I was compelled to introduce a motion in the House of Commons calling on the Liberal government to join Canada\u2019s allies in deeming ISIS\u2019 actions as genocide. The European Parliament unanimously called it genocide. The United Kingdom House of Commons unanimously called it genocide. The United States House of Representatives unanimously called it genocide. It\u2019s Canada\u2019s time to do the same.
\nBut tragically, the Liberals just don\u2019t get it. When the motion was put to a vote in the House of Commons on June 14 your local Liberal Member of Parliament voted against it.
\nIn the following days, the Liberals backed down and recognized the ISIS genocide against Yazidis \u2013 but they still refuse to acknowledge the broader genocide against the Assyrians, Christians and others, as our allies do. It is a dark spot on Canada\u2019s record that Prime Minister Trudeau and his government cannot gather the courage to name this threat against human rights that has seen women and girls sold into sexual slavery or murdered outright, and forced thousands of innocent people into refugee camps.
\nOn behalf of the Official Opposition, my Conservative colleagues and I will continue to fight for the cultural and religious minorities targeted by ISIS.<\/p>\n

Rona Ambrose, MP
\nLeader of the Opposition<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada must stand with our allies and recognize and condemn ISIS\u2019 actions for what they really are \u2013 genocide. The stories from Syria and Iraq are too chilling. ISIS is systematically exterminating Christians, Assyrians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims, and other countless religious minorities in these regions. From \u201csex-slave markets,\u201d to bidding on Yazidi girls as if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3Sv","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 07:22:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}