Canada has influence—it’s time to use it to stop genocide

There are still so many economic and diplomatic levers that Canada can pull to pressure Israel to end the carnage in Gaza.

Protestors gather outside the Israeli Embassy on O’Connor Street in downtown Ottawa to call on the Israeli government to end its genocide in Gaza on July 30. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LAUREN RAVON, BUSHRA KHALIDI

October 8, 2025

As part of Oxfam’s Not In My Name campaign, our leadership was in Ottawa meeting with government officials to do more to end the genocide in Gaza. In those conversations, several senior officials shrugged off our calls with one meek line: “Canada has no real inf...

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