This week’s blog is chock full of important international developments including an end to American support for the war in Yemen and a pivotal decision of the International Criminal Court that it has jurisdiction over war crimes in Palestine. We also delve into the murky world of cyber attacks.
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.
International and domestic pressure increases as official figures show a dramatic surge in Canadian LAV exports to Saudi Arabia since the Prime Minister stated he was “looking for a way out of the Saudi arms deal”.