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Canada to stop sending arms to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says (www.thestar.com)
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The Trudeau government will cease future arms exports to Israel even though a motion passed Monday by the House of Commons that called for such action is non-binding, says Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.

"It is a real thing," said Joly, speaking to the Star briefly on the morning after a majority of Liberal MPs and cabinet voted in support of a modified NDP resolution that some Jewish groups say undermines Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas.

The controversial multi-pronged resolution sought to toughen Canada's stance on the Middle East conflict.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's very unlikely to happen, but Canada effectively shares a huge border with Russia via the north. It's not Alaska or bust, and there's been a decent amount of talk about Arctic security in the last decade or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sure, but Canada's military isn't going to make a difference when the worlds most powerful military - , is going to also be fighting Russia in this circumstance... from home soil. This would be an absolute suicidal attack from Russia, which even if they did, would be taken out by the US before we had a chance to do anything. We would have to increase spending to four times of what we do now to even match what Russia spends, let alone what the USA does (that would be what, 37 times what we spend now).

And for what? You think a Russian incursion is going to make it anywhere near American airspace? What exactly is our 'increased military spending' going to do, exactly?