Anand urged to reverse ‘wrong’ course of letting U.S. decide if it breached international law with boat strikes

International law experts say that Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has erred in proclaiming that it is up to the U.S. to decide if it has violated international law.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand recently said it is 'within the purview of U.S. authorities' to decide if it has breached international law with its own strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

A former Liberal foreign affairs minister and a number of international law experts and advocates are urging Canada’s top diplomat to reverse course on pronouncing that it is the United States that should decide on the legality of its own strikes on suspected drug boats in...

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