June 13, 2002

View image of document

Debates of the Senate (Hansard)

1st Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 139, Issue 124

Thursday, June 13, 2002

That this House calls upon the Government of Canada:

(a) to recognize the genocide of the Armenians and to condemn any attempt to deny or distort a historical truth as being anything less than genocide, a crime against humanity, and

(b) to designate April 24th of every year hereafter throughout Canada as a day of remembrance of the 1.5 million Armenians who fell victim to the first genocide of the twentieth century.