Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly made it clear within minutes of the passage of the NDP's motion on Israel and the Gaza war that the government didn't regard it as just another non-binding opposition day motion that could be swiftly forgotten.
Gazans crammed into Rafah along the Egyptian border have no place to escape as Israeli attacks hit closer to the once-safe zone in a final bid to rescue remaining hostages.
A series of Israeli strikes has hit Rafah, the city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip where 1.4 million Palestinians have fled to escape fighting elsewhere in the four-month Israel-Hamas war.
Palestinian hospital officials say an Israeli strike hit a home in an area of southern Gaza that the military had declared a safe zone, killing at least 12 people, almost all children.