PM Carney: Canada’s support for U.S. striking Iran came ‘with regret’

Source: joeTaco

19 Comments

  1. It only came with “regret” after internal polling came in.

    For reference, Angus Reid recently polled on this and found 69% of Liberal suppprters opposed to these strikes. Carney’s trying to backpedal because his base doesn’t like this.

  2. “We only support interventionism and the violation of international laws when our base supports it.”

  3. MusclyArmPaperboy on

    >”We were not informed in advance, we were not asked to participate,” Carney told reporters travelling with him in Australia. “Prima facie, it appears that these actions are inconsistent with international law.”

    “We would not have been in a position … to take a judgment that met our standards if we had been asked to participate. We weren’t. We haven’t made that formal judgment. It’s for others to make those judgments,” Carney said.

    >”We were dealing with the world as it is.”

  4. ButtExplosion on

    Carney how tf do you still believe international law exists? LMAO embarrassing from a world leader

  5. Flip flop, flip flop. Carney bots will say this is a sign of pragmatism, when in reality, it’s a sign of having no backbone, and going where the wind blows. Sometimes it’s okay to say nothing until you have enough information.

  6. In this particular case, given the US gave no heads up to Canada about this, it would’ve been entirely reasonable to pause before giving out a statement. Or a statement saying something like, “we are watching closely and will provide an update later” just to buy some time. There’s no need to react immediately with a strong opinion with every action Trump does

  7. Hopefully Carney is just buying some time until we have more trade deals in place and operational and to see how the midterms in the US pan out.
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    There is no advantage for our government to antagonize the US although we may have to take a stand before too long.
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    I’m not happy about Carneys statement but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.
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    Similarly, I’m not happy that there is another Mideast war but reserving judgement (with regret) about the decision to start this.

  8. Really like the Brexit vibe here and how Carney was actually in UK during Brexit make it even more ironically funny. Hope he double down and let the Canadian version brexiter get what they want.

  9. Notice it’s only about the nukes he’s worried about supporting.

    Kind of hard to support the dismantling of a terrorist regime you actually support, killing, torturing, raping maiming and imprisoning of women that don’t wear a specific piece of cloth, and also recognize the terrorist state of Hamas controlled Palestine, which is in turn supported by the Islamic Terrorist Regime in Iran.

  10. Ok_Chain4973 on

    Why would the US and Israel need Canada to participate? Looks like they have all the firepower they need.

  11. This is going to be Afghanistan all over again once the invasion starts only it will be worse this time since the Israelis and US killed what was essentially the Pope of Shia muslims.

    This will not end well for anyone involved in the ground invasion.

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