By acceding to the treaty, we have taken firm action to strengthen our export controls and to enshrine the protection of human rights in our export laws.
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Canadians value human rights, and our foreign policy reflects that. Today, Canada officially becomes a State Party to the #ArmsTradeTreaty.
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I recall you and PM fancy socks trying to virtue signal during various trade negotiations and being laughed at to your faces. I can only imagine what their response was once you'd left.
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A great day for Canadian human rights / foreign policy leadership, indeed. But
@AmnestyNow@CJPME@rideauinstitute@ploughshares_ca@OxfamQuebec & others await an answer on the Saudi LAV deal. Here's our letter to you,@JustinTrudeau &@jimcarr_wpg: https://www.amnesty.ca/sites/default/files/20190804%20-%20Five%20Month%20Follow%20Up%20Letter%20from%20CSOs%20-%20FINAL%20EN.pdf …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Indeed it does. Its capacity, when human rights are at stake, to put aside its usual sympathies with what’s marketed as “socialist”, has been absolutely vital when, in Europe and Group of Lima, it comes to lend credibility to Venezuela’s opposition. Thanks Canada!
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@justinjmohammed Also, did Amnesty International Canada receive a response to their open letter with respect to a Canadian entering into a contract with Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC)? https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-lobbying-contract-Sudan-TMC-may-face-police-probe … https://www.amnesty.ca/sites/amnesty/files/Letter%20to%20Ministers%20Freeland%20and%20Lametti%20regarding%20Ben-Menashe%20contract_0.pdf … -
Yes, I understand from media reports that the federal government requested an RCMP investigation: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-ottawa-recommends-rcmp-investigate-canadian-lobby-firm-representing/ …
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What about the arms you have been selling to
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You really do need to get that seat on the UN Security Council. Canada is not the UN and can’t fix the world
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