Prime Minister Mark Carney says there are “serious issues” regarding China’s treatment of the Uyghur minority in China when asked if he believes the persecution amounts to a genocide as declared by a 2021 House of Commons resolution.
The resolution received unanimous support from all parties, including the Liberals, while then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet abstained from voting.
The question was posed to Carney at a press conference on March 31, as he’s been fielding questions this week about the issue of forced labour in China.
“Look, there are fundamental issues in terms of China’s treatment of the Uyghurs in the past, and they’ve been rightly called out,” Carney said following an unrelated announcement in Wakefield, Que….