Greens’ call for ‘peace talks’ to end Russian invasion angers both Ukrainians and anti-war members

Arguing against weapons to Ukraine is ‘tacitly endorsing Russia’s genocide’ says the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, while Quebec's Green Party leader accuses May and Pedneault of abandoning the federal party's ‘founding principles of pacifism and anti-violence.’

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault, centre, with co-leader Elizabeth May, right, and MP Mike Morrice, says calls for non-violence require Russia to end its own hostilities, noting that the party has been 'extremely critical' of the invasion, which he called a 'demonstration of raw imperialist power.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

February 14, 2023

The Green Party’s calls for “peace talks” and a negotiated solution to the war in Ukraine, as well as its lack of opposition to the shipments of lethal weapons Canada has provided to Kyiv “thus far,” has Ukrainian Canadians accusing the party of “echoing Russia's...

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