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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.

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[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

“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.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/9/demands-for-canada-to-stop-supplying-weapons-to-israel-grow-louder

This is virtue signalling and won't have any meaningful effect on whether Israel continues its genocide against Palestinians

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/pmc-cgp/quellessont-whatare/grp2-eng.html

https://www.international.gc.ca/transparency-transparence/controls-controles/military-goods-2022-marchandises-militaires.aspx?lang=eng#a6_7

The categories are admittedly a bit too broad for my liking but most of it seems to be electronics and components, which from what I can tell are not mentioned in this motion.

And even if these permits are also frozen, let's be realistic here, if Israel needs weapon components they can very easily find another vendor outside of Canada or use middlemen. If Russia can do it so can they.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait, the papers were just saying the other week they'd been approving shipments of arms to Israel till just recently

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Military goods, not arms. Lots of journalists are failing their audiences and equating these 2 when one doesn't necessarily imply the other.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 months ago

There's berm conflicting statements directly attributed to government departments clearly contradicting each other. Who the fuck knows?