MPs vote to resettle 10,000 Uyghur people

Members of Parliament have unan- imously called on Ottawa to start a refugee program to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs fleeing persecution in China. Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi proposed the motion last June, calling on the government to launch a program in 2024 to bring Uyghurs and other Muslims of Turkic origin to Canada. The UN reported last August that China is committing “grave human rights violations.”