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Justin Trudeau has an odd way of deciding what is and what is not a genocide.

Back in 2016 when ISIS had not yet been beaten back to the much smaller foothold they have now, Trudeau and his Liberal Party rejected calls for labelling what ISIS was doing to Yazidis in particular a genocide.

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His party even proudly voted against a motion in the House of Commons that sought to condemn the actions of ISIS.

“We do not feel that politicians should be weighing in on this first and foremost,” Trudeau said in June 2016.

“Determinations of genocide needs to be made in an objective, responsible way. That is exactly what we have formally requested the international authorities weigh in on.”

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Except that determinations had already been made by the international authorities he said needed to weigh in.

The U.S. State Department, headed up by John Kerry and under then president Barack Obama, had already declared a genocide, as had a unanimous vote in the House of Representatives. Various NGOs working in the area had been warning of genocide.