The Canadian Parliament could not vote for the resolution on the recognition of 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars the act of genocide, Ukrinform news agency reported.
Boris Wrzesniewsky, the lawmaker of the Ukrainian origin tried to put the respective resolution on the voting procedure; however, the opposition MPs protested loudly, and the Parliamentary Speaker had to decline it.
'I offer the Parliament to consider that May 18, 1944, Crimean Tatar Surgunlik was deployed by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, in order to perform an ethnic cleansing of Crimea from 200,000 Tatars, depriving them of their property, putting them on train wagons for cattle and sending them to the steppes of the Central Asia', reads the document.
If the MPs passed it, May 18 would have officially become the Day of Memory of Crimean Tatar people in that country.
There was a Crimean Tatar delegation from Ukraine at the sesion hall; leader of Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev and deputy Head of the Kemjlis Akhtem Chyigoz held a speech before the voting, updating the MPs on the situation with human rights violations in the Russian-occupied peninsula.
