Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie announced that her country would suspend arms exports to Israel. This step comes after Parliament approved a non-binding resolution proposal presented by the New Democratic Party to ban the sale of weapons.
Despite the non- binding nature of the resolution, it represents a historic step, according to what many observers describe, and comes in line with the shift witnessed in Ottawa’s speech towards the war on Gaza. Many Canadian political analysts, including Jordan Lichnitz, director of the Canada Program at the Frederic Ebert Foundation, believe that the resolution proposal represents an attempt to push the government to exert more pressure.