Canada must act in accordance with its professed strong support for international law and the International Court of Justice by calling on Israel to fully comply with the ICJ rulings.
With a fragile humanitarian truce in place to allow for hostage and prisoner releases and somewhat increased aid to flow into Gaza, we must continue to call on our government to exert every effort for a full ceasefire now.
Canada refuses to sign Nuclear Ban Treaty or even to congratulate ICAN and Canadian Hiroshima survivor who will accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
We find out June 7th if the Liberal government stands firm or caves to Trump’s pressure to double our defence spending.
Canada has the opportunity to get it right this time by voting YES to the UN resolution launching historic negotiations to outlaw nuclear weapons.
We must embrace a UN-centred sustainable peace and common security framework to guide our foreign and defence policy.