Joly says Canada bars any Canadian-made arms from reaching Gaza
By The Canadian Press on September 10, 2024.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told reporters at the Liberal caucus retreat that "will not have any forms of arms" made in Canada used in the Gaza Strip. Joly speaks to reporters at the Liberal caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl DyckOTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Ottawa prohibits any Canadian-made weapons from reaching the Gaza Strip.
Her comments come weeks after the U.S. announced plans to send Quebec-made ammunition to Israel.
In March, the Liberals joined the NDP to pass a motion to stop authorizing arms exports to Israel, though permits approved in the prior months are still active.
Global Affairs Canada previously declined to say whether the proposed American purchase violates that agreement.
Joly now says Ottawa’s policy is that Canadian-made arms and components cannot be used in the Gaza Strip, regardless of how they are sent to Israel.
Ottawa stopped approving new arms permits for Israel in January, and Joly says she has also had 30 existing permits suspended.
The company named in the proposed U.S. sale, the Quebec branch of General Dynamics, has referred questions to the U.S. military.
Last week, major civil-society groups called on Ottawa to expand restrictions on military exports on Israel to a total ban.
The request cited possible violations of international humanitarian law in Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip following an attack by Hamas last fall.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 10, 2024.
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I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.
Israel is in the fight for it’s very existence, but this government doesn’t care about soveriegnty or security. It has sold out our sovereignty in trade deals, including to China and we cannot even defend our own country because they allowed our military to fall into disrepair and troop morale to fall into all time lows.
The Liberals know nothing about defense of a country or the fact that the Jewish people have been there for thousands of years. There have been two Jewish Temples built on the Temple mount, hundreds of years before the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islam didn’t become a religion until almost 600 years after Christ was crucified.
Yet this government allows terrorist funded protesters to scream genocide of the Jews in public places and campuses across Canada. Canada is becoming a launch point for terrorists to attack the US, and will turn on Canadians. They call Israel the little Satan, and the West (Canada, US, England, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) the big Satan!