We need a foreign policy that spells out how Canada intends to work tirelessly to strengthen international law, to champion the UN’s diplomatic, peacekeeping and humanitarian work and to help stop a burgeoning nuclear arms race.
This week’s Rideau Institute blog contrasts the virtual silence of Canada despite a global outcry against Israel demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, developments relating to a definition of anti-semitism that does not undermine legitimate criticism of Israel, Canada’s continuing opposition to a UN ban on the export of wastes in developing countries and a new article on Canada’s misguided Venezuelan policy.
The U.S. House of Representatives on 4 April 2019 gave final passage to a bipartisan resolution forcing an end to United States military involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.