Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion

United Nations Security Council Veteran Tory: Dion said the federal government is again calling on further, urgent action from the United Nations Security Council, according to Huffington Post Canada. Veteran Tory MP Jason Kenney said it was unfortunate it took the "stubborn minister so long to realize the facts that have been staring the world in the face." Shortly before voting against the motion Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons that the determination on what is or is not genocide must be done objectively by the UN, not partisan politicians. Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion confirmed the position in question period Thursday, two days after Liberal MPs voted against a Conservative motion that sought to label ISIS atrocities with the same term. "Today for the first time, an independent report by the UN Commission has concluded that genocide was committed by the so-called Islamic State against the Yazidis," Dion said. "Given this evidence, our government believes that genocide against the Yazidis is currently ongoing." This undated file image posted online on Jan. 14, 2014 shows ISIS fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. Four Liberal MPs strayed and voted with Tories, New Democrats, and Bloc MPs in supporting the motion. The report summary states: ISIS has sought to destroy the Yazidis through killings; sexual slavery, enslavement, torture and inhuman and degrading treatment and forcible transfer causing serious bodily and mental harm; the infliction of conditions of life that bring about a slow death; the imposition of measures to prevent Yazidi children from being born, including forced conversion of adults, the separation of Yazidi men and women, and mental trauma; and the transfer of Yazidi children from their own families and placing them with ISIS fighters, thereby cutting them off from beliefs and practices of their own religious community, and erasing their identity as Yazidis. The report from the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, based on dozens of interviews with survivors, summarizes in graphic detail the "ongoing genocide" against the Kurdish-speaking religious community of 400,000 people at the hands of ISIS. Testimonies included recollections of mass killings and the sexual slavery of women and girls. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.