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Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s announcement Tuesday that Canada has suspended 30 permits to export military materiel to Israel may have been meant to placate pro-Palestinian activists demanding an arms embargo. But without more transparency, it remains a political muddle.

One week out from a byelection in a previously safe Liberal seat in Montreal where New Democrats (and their pamphlets) are pushing Canada’s response to the ongoing violence in Gaza as a ballot question, Joly proactively used her scrum at the governing caucus’s retreat in Nanaimo, B.C. to rebut claims the Trudeau government isn’t doing enough.

“Our policy has been clear,” she said. “Since Jan. 8, we have not accepted any form of arms export permits to be sent to Israel.”

Accepting her claim that the government’s policy has been “clear” means forgetting the mess last spring when a New Democrat MP introduced a Commons motion calling on Canada to …

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