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Fuckin' finally
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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As usual the NDP have to be the adults in government.
There's a reason I've voted for them ever since I was voting age.
Good on the NDP for pushing the point. Despite the resolution itself being very tempered in language, in spirit the bill is functioning as intended.
I gotta say to all the people whining about the free Palestine protesters
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW YOU GET A RESULT
Yes, Canada not selling arms to Israel isn't going to do much of anything on the ground - but that's not entirely the point.
The point is, when you know your government is doing something horrible (that they still want to do) protesting the individuals who make up government absolutely has tangible results.
If we want our politicians to actually prioritize healthcare, education, infrastructure, cost of living, national defence, unions, wage gaps, break up monopolies/oligopoly there is only one path.
Take a page out of Palestinian playbook and collectively organize against government officials. Where they live, their meetings, events, their families etc. Protest the politicians existence and go after them in court constantly
Make the individual politicians and their families lives miserable until they act like they give enough of a shit about you that you're satisfied with their efforts.
Canada is one of the most politically apathetic yet wealthy countries on earth. We collectively let ourselves be robbed and crushed by neoliberalism, and have next to 0 civic comprehension or participation.
The belief that voting or paying attention to politics and government action is useless is blatantly wrong.
Every current problem is a direct result of intentional action by politicians and government policy, and the only way it happens is voter apathy.
We deserve the government we have because we allow them to act unchecked.
Hopefully that means more weapons destined to Ukraine.
But hopefully no more standing ovations in Parliament for WW2 Nazis lol
“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
this doesn't read like "none for 30 years" https://www.cjpme.org/ and this mentions 315 export permits https://amnesty.ca/blog/stop-arms-sales-fueling-conflict-in-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territories/
https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/pmc-cgp/quellessont-whatare/grp2-eng.html
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.
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?
Israel has a very robust and healthy domestic arms industry, this is unlikely to affect anything at all on their end.
Maybe they can send some Iron Dome to Gaza to protect the Palestinians from their terrorist neighbors?