All Canadian provinces recognise Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people

The Atlantic Canadian province of Prince Edward Island recognised the Holodomor as an act of genocide of Ukrainians, becoming the last province of all ten that did so. (Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine which lasted from 1932 to 1933 and claimed the lives of millions of Ukrainians – ed.)

Source: the relevant draft law received the unanimous support of MPs in the third and final reading, reports European Pravda with reference to Ukrinform

"Prince Edward Island joins other provinces in recognising the Ukrainian famine as an act of genocide," the text of the adopted draft law says.

In addition to the very fact of recognising the genocide, the draft law also defines the fourth Saturday of November as the Memorial Day of the Ukrainian famine and genocide at the provincial level.

The draft law was submitted to the provincial parliament by Liberal MP Gordon McNeely. It took MPs less than three weeks to adopt it.

Canada recognised the Holodomor as an act of genocide at the state level in 2008. Since then, the country has commemorated the Holodomor Memorial Day every year. Following the decision of the legislative assembly of Prince Edward Island, all ten Canadian provinces recognised the Holodomor as an act of genocide.

The Holodomor was a man-made famine of 1932-1933 by the Stalinist repressive regime during the heyday of collectivisation, that is, the forced seizure of private property and the organisation of collective farms. As a result of those events, according to various estimates, four to six million Ukrainians died due to lack of food, mainly in rural areas.

To date, the Holodomor has been recognised as a genocide of the Ukrainian people by the parliaments of about three dozen countries around the world, as well as the European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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