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“Global Affairs Canada can confirm that Canada has not received any requests, and therefore not issued any permits, for full weapon systems for major conventional arms or light weapons to Israel for over 30 years,” the department told Al Jazeera in an email on Friday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/9/demands-for-canada-to-stop-supplying-weapons-to-israel-grow-louder
This is virtue signalling and won't have any meaningful effect on whether Israel continues its genocide against Palestinians
this doesn't read like "none for 30 years" https://www.cjpme.org/ and this mentions 315 export permits https://amnesty.ca/blog/stop-arms-sales-fueling-conflict-in-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territories/
https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/pmc-cgp/quellessont-whatare/grp2-eng.html
https://www.international.gc.ca/transparency-transparence/controls-controles/military-goods-2022-marchandises-militaires.aspx?lang=eng#a6_7
The categories are admittedly a bit too broad for my liking but most of it seems to be electronics and components, which from what I can tell are not mentioned in this motion.
And even if these permits are also frozen, let's be realistic here, if Israel needs weapon components they can very easily find another vendor outside of Canada or use middlemen. If Russia can do it so can they.
Wait, the papers were just saying the other week they'd been approving shipments of arms to Israel till just recently
Military goods, not arms. Lots of journalists are failing their audiences and equating these 2 when one doesn't necessarily imply the other.
There's berm conflicting statements directly attributed to government departments clearly contradicting each other. Who the fuck knows?