I wonder what criteria the government uses in order to decide when to intervene in time of a humanitarian crisis.

The Yazidi were entirely ignored by the current government until Michele Rempell, in Oct 2016, introduced a motion in Parliament calling on Parliament to declare  the violence perpetrated against the Yazidi by ISIS as a genocide, and commit to providing asylum to Yazidi women and children.

But had we waited for the current government to introduce a motion on behalf of the Yazidi, we would still be waiting.

One only has to recall that in June 2016, the Liberals (with the exception of four Liberal MPs) voted against declaring the  atrocities committed against the Yazidi  to be a genocide, and found various excuses to make no efforts to provide refuge to them.

How to explain this?  Are they interested in actually helping victims of genocide? Or just interested in keeping a high profile for themselves with a "hot" story?