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Jason Kenney and Dion

: This is the priority, according to Metro News. Conservative Jason Kenney, who has spent weeks urging the government to put the genocide label on ISIL, says Dion is missing the larger picture by focusing only on the Yazidis."This genocide affects more than the Yazidis," Kenney said."It affects the other indigenous minorities of Mesopotamia. Dion said Thursday he accepts the findings of the report of an independent, UN-mandated commission which says the militants known variously as ISIL, ISIS and Daesh have committed genocide against the ethnically Kurdish minority group."We are taking the lead in asking the Security Council to be sure that they will prosecute the perpetrators of these atrocities and investigate in order to understand what is happening on the ground," Dion told the Commons."In the meantime, we have tripled our effort to fight ISIL on the ground, because we need to rescue these populations. It affects the Assyrians and the Chaldeans and the Armenians, and so will he not join the U.S., EU and U.K. and the Opposition in recognizing the broader genocide "In debating and then defeating the Tory genocide motion on Tuesday, the government said politicians should shy away from declarations of such of genocide need to be made in an objective, responsible way," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during the debate. "That is exactly what we have formally requested the international authorities weigh in on."The report issued Thursday seems to fit that bill, although it deals specifically with the Yazidis."Genocide has occurred and is ongoing," Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said in the report entitled, "They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis.""ISIS has subjected every Yazidi woman, child or man that it has captured to the most horrific of atrocities," he said in a news statement issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Its report focused on violations committed against Yazidis inside Syria, where it found that thousands of women and girls are still being held captive and abused, often as slaves. The independent commission was mandated by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011 to investigate and record all violations of international law in Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.