Following the events in Iran, Alexandre Boulerice, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic, issued the following statement:
"The NDP strongly condemns the American and Israeli bombings of Iran. This is a dangerous escalation that risks dragging the entire region into a major conflict. The oppressive and bloody regime of the Ayatollahs is reprehensible, but its nuclear program must be managed through the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In fact, its Director General, Mr. Grossi, recently indicated that he was working with the Iranian administration to resume inspections and reiterated that there could be no solution other than a diplomatic one.
The NDP deplores the Carney government’s decision to blindly support this dangerous venture by Israel and Donald Trump’s administration. We want Canada to be a voice for diplomacy, peace, and international law."
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This part is really where Carney fucked up.
its nuclear program must be managed through the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
I’ve seen a lot of people defend Carney by saying the regime is bad and the problematic nuclear program. In a world of law and order no country should be allowed to singularly make decisions on how these things are handled or just bomb countries whenever they want.
Carney specifically naming America and applauding their actions shows his hypocrisy. Law and order is only a thing when they’re used to benefit him.
Well that’s succinctly put, I didnt really understand the gravity of Carneys action. By supporting Trump hes supporting the exact same thing his speech was supposedly calling out, US hegemony and a disregard for the international order, which makes it seem more like sloganeering to attempt to garner a majority than actual principle or good faith.
Ok so… Here my thinking, let’s wait for isreal and the US to finish because Franky nobody can stop them even if we wanted to, then we’ll count the dead.
Who’s killed more innocent Iranians this year, Iran’s regime or Donald’s invasion. something tells me it’ll be irans regime
It’s not nice at all but frankly I’ll be happy know a religious state will be gone and won’t be making nuclear weapons anymore, now we just need to push isreal back into its city…
oh and stop accepting they’re help, those genocidal freaks will not be of help to you over-throwing iran
If/when this school bombing gets certified Carny is going to look like a right fucking tool for his endorsement of Israel and its lapdog.
This is a much better worded statement from the NDP.
Unfortunately Carney is stuck in a harder position. The NDP is free to make statements like this because they have no real significance, but Carney is still trying to thread the needle with the Americans on various trade matters so he can’t go straight to negative statements.
I don’t like it, this is the first time I’ve found myself seriously disagreeing with something Carney said, but at the same time I can’t really fault him too badly. Ultimately it’s more important what governments do rather than what they say, so we’ll see if Canada continues to stay firmly out of this one.
He could have made a simple statement urging calm and restraint. No need to take sides.
Not with the isreal lobby pulling the world leaders strings. Could use Donald to attack Canada for not helping them, you’ve seen isreal lash out at those who don’t support them.
Nah that’s a silly antisemitic trope, refuted easily by the simple fact that Canada recognized Palestine a few months ago.
Hmm true, maybe they were making nukes then… I seriously doubt at this stage carney would want to work with the US on anything with Donald around,
If he can talk about the issues of American hegemony at Davos, he can hold true to that word in a statement like this.
Oh no, the U.S. is gonna negatively affect trade with us… as if Trump isn’t literally out there threatening to abandon CUSMA, a deal that he made in his first term to replace NAFTA.
If their word never seems to matter, why should we hold ourselves to their standards?
Because we don’t want Donald to have a fit and send troups, he’s currently invaiding his second country this term and I doubt he’ll be stoping anytime soon.
Why bother trying to negotiate with the Americans? Iran was actively in peace talks with the US and Israel when this bombing happened. It further demonstrates that there’s no point negotiating with trump, he’s a bad faith negotiator
Agree. Why justify this type of incursion when we have literally been threatened?
“Negotiation” can be an attempt to come to a deal, or it can be an attempt to keep Trump distracted until some different jangly keys come along to occupy his attention.
He could have said nothing. It would have been cowardly, but slightly less so.
Yeah this is my thought too…like if you’re so scared that you can’t say what you think is right, fine…but keep your damn trap shut and quit licking boots.
Unless he actually believes in this…
How the fuck you think you know what he thinks? These types of comments are measured well, not just blurted out.
I get it, but why not just bide his time rather than support an illegal action.
The last five years have shown how little organizations like the UN matter. The NDP is daydreaming here. Get serious.
Perhaps Russia is now justified in doing whatever it wants, does that mean we stop hearing people like Carney call out “Russia’s illegal war on Ukraine” when we dont stand by international law ourselves?
I’d guess things like tariffs from the country holding the world reserve currency are also now justified, even though it causes crisis in countries that utilize it for global trade. Everyone gets to just do whatever benefits them and we stop attempting to harmonize or maintain some semblance of law and order as we embrace economic nihilism.
Justified? justification has nothing to do with it. what carney said was true, the large countrys rule, middle powers dont . thats what everyone doing, they’re choosing not to stick they’re necks out for some religious state trying to build nukes and fund terror orgs. that doesn’t mean he isnt trying to set up middle powers networks. i feel like everyones lost the plot these days.
Was his speech meant as an endorsement to that?
=.= his davos speech yes, if your talking about the Iran one. no, kind of. he basically talked for a minute or 2 about a bunch of the bad stuff Iran did, he specifically said he approved of the us destroying the nuclear sites but thats all he really said on the matter. he was in the middle of talks on trade with india so its clear hes perusing the middle power network. this all seems like smoke.
