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OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion says the government acknowledges that the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is conducting genocide against the Yazidis.

Dion says he accepts the findings of the report of an independent, UN-mandated commission which says the militants known as ISIL have committed genocide against the ethnically Kurdish minority group.

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He says the Canadian government wants the UN to carry out more investigations and that the Security Council should pledge to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice.

The Conservative Opposition has demanded that the government resume the Canadian combat mission against ISIL, but Dion says that’s not the way to go.

He says Canada has tripled its effort to train fighters to take on ISIL and to help rescue the Yazidis.

The Conservatives are also demanding that the government act to bring Yazidis to safety in Canada.