It took two trips through the House, but Canada’s MP’s have now unanimously passed a motion recognizing residential schools as genocide.
NDP MP Leah Gazan initially brought the motion before the House last year, following the discovery of unmarked graves at the Kamloops Residential School.
But, that motion failed to gain unanimous consent, prompting Gazan to reintroduce the motion, with different results, this time around.
Gazan says she believes the Pope referring to the schools as genocide at the end of a cross-Canada tour this summer, helped sway votes.
In 2015, Canada accepted the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report, which labeled the crisis as a cultural genocide.
But, until now, the House had never officially referred to it as such.
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