The Trudeau government’s unequivocal support for Israel’s right to “self-defence” is exposing the hypocrisy behind Canada’s magnanimous brand. There is simply no nuance to Ottawa’s statements: it fully stands behind the forces that are destroying hospitals, uprooting hundreds of thousands, and espousing genocidal rhetoric.
Our politicians should be working on the thousands of unresolved problems IN Canada not trying to craft the perfect tweet about a foreign war.
Send aide, support the civilian population, stop using it as a source of popularity points.
You know there’s more than one politician, right?
Thus, we can do both, and there’s no “but we were solving this other thing first” issue when it comes to external issues since those can be discussed in parallel.