Trudeau, Liberal MPs Vote Against Tory Motion Declaring ISIS Atrocities As Genocide

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 14, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rose in the House of Commons Tuesday to vote against a Conservative motion declaring that the atrocities of the so-called Islamic State constitute genocide.

His decision appeared to back up what Trudeau told the House minutes earlier: that partisan politicians shouldn’t determine what is or isn’t genocide.