The Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister qualified the move to 'cease the further authorization and transfer of arms exports to Israel,' already paused since January 8, as 'a real thing,' and not merely symbolic.

Israel has historically been a top receiver of Canadian arms exports, with CAN$21 million worth of military materiel exported to Israel in 2022, according to Radio Canada, following CAN$26 million in shipments in 2021. That places Israel among the top 10 recipients of Canadian arms exports.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    8 months ago

    Canada hasn’t been sending any arms to Israel; the sum total impact of this is a handful (like literally, one order) of civilian trucks and night-vision goggles or something that the IDF isn’t going to get anymore.

    It is still a nice gesture and the pro-Israeli-government people are rewardingly up in arms about how they could possibly be so openly disrespectful and anti-Semitic as to do this.