Thursday, March 10, 2022

Despite Appearances, Trudeau's Photo Ops, (Lack of) Actions and Empty Words, Canada is Trying to Be On the Allied's Side

 There are more Ukranian-Canadians or Canadian-Ukranians or whatever a person living in Canada under full citizenship calls themselves that will fight for Ukraine  UT bit Canada 

"...We’re also sending along $1 million so that the Ukrainians can buy high-resolution RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery gear that will give them an edge in tracking Russian forces on the ground. This is only fitting, since the Trudeau government scuttled a commitment to provide RADARSAT-2 data to Ukraine in 2016, only months after coming to power, when Stéphane Dion was foreign affairs minister. The Ukrainians needed the data desperately, following Putin’s annexation of Crimea and occupation of Luhansk and Donetsk two years earlier. Awkward..."

Bestowed with these topmost-tier diplomatic postings after being turfed by Trudeau in 2017 and replaced by the pro-Ukraine and pro-democracy militant Chrystia Freeland, Dion has been quite understandably out of the limelight lately. During his time as foreign minister Dion was notoriously chummy with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. He was wildly enthusiastic about restoring warm relations with Putin, despite Putin’s ongoing war crimes in Syria, and Dion was adamantly opposed to the introduction of “Magnitsky” laws to sanction Russian oligarchs that every democracy on Earth has now suddenly and at long last taken on..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-trudeau-combats-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-with-operation-photo-opportunity

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