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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ At Davos, Prime Minister
#MarkCarney declared that #Canada will "apply the same standards to allies and rivals".

In 2022 Canada barred #Russia n aircraft from Canadian airspace.

Two days ago, an Israeli plane transporting the war criminal Netanyahu flew through Canadian airspace.

https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/2022131495570485539

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[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The Canadian government will never, ever condemn or even criticize Israel because once they do, it opens up inconvenient questions on the history and present actions of Canada itself, including whether Canada should even exist, because Canada is built on the same settler colonial foundations as Israel.

Israel must be the good guys over the savage and extremist Palestinians because as long as they're the good guys, it follows that Canada must be the good guys over the savage and uncivilized Indigenous people here as well, and hey, we've even mostly stopped doing what Israel is doing to "our" Indigenous people so we must be even better!

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Canada is built on the same settler colonial foundations as Israel.

That's a great oversimplification. I'm sure Palestine has their own Queenston Heights and Israel pays for college.

Or maybe don't dilute whats going on in Palestine by lumping different things in with it.

[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The core philosophy of how the country was founded is the same: impose a certain culture and way of life on peoples who wanted nothing to do with you, kick them off the land they've lived on for generations and move your own people there. And it's not like we didn't commit our own genocide, why are there so few Indigenous people nowadays? Canada is one of the oldest colonial countries so most of the truly ugly stuff happened long before you or I were born (still, not that long ago), but it is still something Indigenous people are struggling with. Obviously Israel is worse in the present day, obviously Canadians are more apologetic about it, obviously the average Canadian now is not playing nearly as active a role in the colonialism (again, due to most of the ugly stuff happening some time ago) and Canada is not currently committing something as bad as a genocide, but if you look at histories of countries as a whole it's pretty similar. Also, I was referring to specifially the government of Canada criticizing Israel, because it gives them an excuse not to change how Canada is governed, which in case you haven't noticed is also screwing over non Indigenous Canadians and is absolutely not working for anyone but the rich.

[โ€“] voracitude@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Realistically, what would have been the consequences to Canada if they'd "stuck to their guns" (so to speak)?

[โ€“] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 16 hours ago

The plane would have flown around Canadian airspace and Canada would receive condemnation from the US and Israel

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago