Prime Minister Mark Carney talks about pragmatic principles, but Canada’s weapons exports to the United States tell a different story.
There must be immediate action. For Canada, that starts with a full arms embargo, cancelling our free trade deal with Israel, and imposing biting sanctions.
The recent death of a Canadian woman in a Turkish prison further underscores that all citizens who remain locked up in northeastern Syria must be repatriated immediately.
During this election in Kashmir, 15 countries will be participating as observers, but Canada is absent.
Abuses committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups are war crimes and belong before the International Criminal Court. However egregious, they do not extinguish Palestinian humanity, nor excuse Israel’s extensive violations of numerous international laws.
Have lessons been learned? That is far from evident. There has been little effort by any order of government to even reach out and hear community-member views firsthand.
The issue of how to constrain, if not outright end, use of the notwithstanding clause should be on the agenda of upcoming meetings of federal, provincial and territorial ministers of justice. A parallel experts’ roundtable could be convened to review options for limiting and eventually revoking Sec. 33.
