The Trudeau government will cease future arms exports to Israel even though a motion passed Monday by the House of Commons that called for such action is non-binding, says Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.
“It is a real thing,” said Joly, speaking to the Star briefly on the morning after a majority of Liberal MPs and cabinet voted in support of a modified NDP resolution that some Jewish groups say undermines Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas.
The controversial multi-pronged resolution sought to toughen Canada’s stance on the Middle East conflict.
“Global Affairs Canada can confirm that Canada has not received any requests, and therefore not issued any permits, for full weapon systems for major conventional arms or light weapons to Israel for over 30 years,” the department told Al Jazeera in an email on Friday.
This is virtue signalling and won’t have any meaningful effect on whether Israel continues its genocide against Palestinians
Wait, the papers were just saying the other week they’d been approving shipments of arms to Israel till just recently
Military goods, not arms. Lots of journalists are failing their audiences and equating these 2 when one doesn’t necessarily imply the other.
There’s berm conflicting statements directly attributed to government departments clearly contradicting each other. Who the fuck knows?