Navigating Canada’s human rights hypocrisy

Compromises in foreign policy are necessary, but Canada must at least be open and honest about how and why it chooses to be inconsistent with its approach to human rights at home and abroad.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admonished the International Criminal Court for investigating Israel, arguing that Canada does not recognize 'Palestine' as a sovereign state, ignoring the 139 countries that do, and threatening Canadian funding of the ICC.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHAUN NARINE

September 1, 2022

In February 2021, Canada declared that China was committing “genocide” against the Uyghur people of Xinjiang. A few months later, Canada was

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