Statement from Official Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day

Every year, we take a moment to remember and reflect on an inhuman genocide carried out by human beings. The systematic planning and carrying out of the destruction of six million human lives is an unequalled tragedy in a century …

Statement by Liberal Leader Bob Rae on Holocaust Remembrance Day

VAL-D’OR, QC— Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement today on Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Yom HasHoah is a day of deep reflection for Canada’s Jewish communities, and Jewish communities around the world. The atrocities of the Holocaust saw six million …

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Yom HaShoah

April 18, 2012 Ottawa, Ontario Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Yom HaShoah is a day to commemorate the nearly 6 million Jewish men, women and children who were slaughtered by …

Statement by Hon. Thomas Mulcair (Leader of the Official Opposition, NDP) on Holocaust Remembrance Day

M. Thomas Mulcair (chef de l’opposition, NPD): (English following) Monsieur le Président, chaque année, nous marquons un temps d’arrêt pour nous recueillir et pour nous souvenir d’un génocide inhumain pourtant commis par des humains. The systematic planning and carrying out …

Statement by Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.) on National Holocaust Remembrance Day

Mr. Speaker, I rise to commemorate National Holocaust Remembrance Day, a remembrance of horrors too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened, of the Holocaust as a war against the Jews in which not all victims …

Mark Adler, MP for York Centre Makes Statement on Yom HaShoa

(OTTAWA) April 4, 2012 Mark Adler, MP rose in the House of Commons today to make the following statement: Mr. Speaker, on the evening of April 18th, Jewish communities around the world will come together and mark Yom HaShoa, a special …

Minister of State Uppal to Announce National Holocaust Monument Development Council

March 30, 2012 – On behalf of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, the Honourable Tim Uppal, Minister of State (Democratic Reform), will announce the members of the National Holocaust Monument Development Council on April 2, 2012. The council is a …

Holocaust Refugees

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association wrote to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism to express its concerns about this bill. The president of the Canadian Council for Refugees, Wanda Yamamoto, has said, “We are celebrating this year the 60th anniversary of the refugee convention, but instead of honouring this treaty, the government is proposing to violate it.” She went on to say, “Let us not forget that the convention was adopted because many countries, including Canada, had closed their doors on Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis, and we said ‘Never again!’”.

I completely agree with her. After the second world war, the international community went through a period of reflection. Together, we decided that we never wanted to violate refugees’ rights ever again. The ship filled with Jewish refugees that had travelled around the world was denied entry to Canada and many other countries. They were forced to return to Germany and in the end, suffered the same fate as so many of their fellow Jewish citizens under the Nazi regime: they were killed.

Poland and the Holocaust

Mr. Wladyslaw Lizon (Mississauga East—Cooksville, CPC): Mr. Speaker, last week The Globe and Mail used the phrase, “Polish concentration camps” in reference to the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland. Brave Polish citizens were the victims of …

Poland and the Holocaust

Mr. Ted Opitz (Etobicoke Centre, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I was troubled to see that in last Friday’s print edition of the Globe and Mail an article on the new war museum in Dresden used the erroneous phrase “Polish concentration camps” …