e-4745 (Foreign affairs)
- Keywords
- Foreign policy
- International conflict and international conflict resolution
- Israel
- Military weapons
- Palestine
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Israel’s war with Hamas killed almost 20,000 people in Gaza in the two months between October 7 and December 18, 2023, with about 70% of them women and children;
- The civilian casualty rate in this war is significantly higher than the average rate in all the conflicts around the world during the 20th century;
- In the occupied West Bank, 2023 has been the deadliest year on record since the UN began reporting in 2005, with at least 477 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire;
- The value of Canada’s arms trade with Israel has been accelerating in the last few years, and in 2022 Canada transferred over $20m in arms to Israel, the third-highest level on record, even adjusted for inflation;
- Canada has a legal responsibility under the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), and its harmonized domestic legislation, to ensure its arms exports are not used in the commission of serious violations of international law, or serious violence against women and children; and
- In the past, Canada has imposed a two-way arms embargo on Israel as a response to violence against Palestinian civilians; notably, in the late 1980s during the first intifada.
- Open for signature
- December 21, 2023, at 4:26 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- February 19, 2024, at 4:26 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Heather McPherson
(Edmonton Strathcona)
April 18, 2024 (Petition No. 441-02383)
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Alberta | 7637 |
British Columbia | 13787 |
Manitoba | 1974 |
New Brunswick | 864 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 604 |
Northwest Territories | 130 |
Nova Scotia | 2702 |
Nunavut | 19 |
Ontario | 39401 |
Prince Edward Island | 283 |
Quebec | 12772 |
Saskatchewan | 1248 |
Yukon | 156 |