text: Meanwhile, back in Canada,  our Liberal government dragged its feet for a very long time, well after the EU and the rest of the west, in declaring the killing, enslavement, and rape of Yazidis by ISIL a genocide.  And our Liberal government opposed and still opposes declaring the similar treatment of the indigenous Aramaic speaking Assyrian Christians  and other indigenous Christians in the middle east a genocide, even though the US  Congress--under Obama-----the EU and the British Parliament all unanimously managed to do so.  Enough said.