We seem to have a habit of doing something so late, but not quite late enough to be “too late”.
Canada is like that cousin that goes to med school you always get compared to…
Paywalles article, but I would hazard a guess we already don’t send arms or munitions and this is likely symbolic to garner votes. We do have a very robust APC, and armored vehicle industry as well as a very robust drone industry and I would guess we’ll continue supplying that kind of war equipment because technically it’s not arms.
I’m not a Canadian, but when I tried to find a nonpaywall link, it looks like it’s not even Trudeau’s party that did this…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/19/canada-halt-arms-sales-to-israel
And it sounds like it was already winding down.
Canada previously said that while it had paused issuing military export permits to Israel, it was still assessing applications on “on a case-by-case basis”.
As usual it was the NDP stepping in and putting forth the motion to do so.
EDIT:
The motion – which passed 204-117 with the support of Liberals, Bloc Québécois and the Green party – also called on Canada to work “towards the establishment of the state of Palestine”.
I’m 0% shocked the Conservatives didn’t vote to stop sending arms to Israel.
Oh wow, just in time, before something terrible happened.
Count on the Liberals to do the right thing, after they tried everything else.
Canada doesn’t do anything without asking the US if it’s okay, so I see this as a positive sign for potentially larger action
Canada isn’t always the smartest country
