Today, the Carney government joined the Conservatives and the Bloc to defeat Jenny Kwan’s No More Loopholes Bill — legislation that would have stopped Canadian weapons sent to the U.S. from being used to fuel the genocide in Gaza.
It’s a deeply shameful vote that suggests they would rather appease Trump than protect vulnerable civilians.
But this moment also shows why voices like Jenny Kwan and her colleagues in the NDP caucus matter so much. They continue to champion human rights, peace, and international justice with courage and persistence, even when few others in Parliament will.
Millions of Canadians share that vision. They want Canada to be a force for peace, not a junior arms dealer.
This is exactly why our country needs the NDP.
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We manage it with every country we trade weapons with except the US.
We PRETEND to manage it with every other country,
Good enough for the law to apply equally.
What exactly does that mean? The egalitarian paradox - the more equally the law is applied, the more dis-equal they become.
We should at least pretend to hold the US to the same standard as everyone else.
Pretending anything when it comes to the US can be a very dangerous thing, especially when you act on that ‘pretend’.
Do you want equal treatment, or equal outcomes? You can never have both in international relations.