Carney Government Picked the Side of War Crimes
The organization which has been mobilizing support for the No More Loopholes Act, Arms Embargo Now, issued the following press release following the bill's defeat in the House of Commons.
The No More Loopholes Act
-- a bill designed to address Canada's arming of genocide and
war
crimes -- was just voted down in the House of Commons. The
Liberal
government was handed a real opportunity to turn their endless
rhetoric
into actual action, and align Canadian arms
exports with human rights and international law. Instead,
Carney's
government just doubled down on ensuring an uninterrupted flow
of
Canadian weapons for Trump and Netanyahu's escalating war
crimes.
This isn't the outcome that any of us were hoping for.
For months now, thousands of you have taken action -- emailing, calling, canvassing, protesting, fighting tirelessly to change Canadian law in order to cut off the unregulated flow of Canadian weapons to the U.S. and on to Israel. You have made it clear that the Canadian masses support an arms embargo and oppose our government's ongoing complicity in war crimes.
Your incredible organizing forced 15 Liberal MPs to break rank and join the NDP in voting YES on the No More Loopholes Act -- and 15 other Liberals abstained, refusing to vote with Carney. Many of these votes were only flipped because of persistent local organizing -- and they are each hard-fought and important achievements. This represents a significant fracture in the Liberal caucus -- as noted by the CBC, it's the first time that most of these MPs have split from the government line since Carney became Prime Minister.
Ultimately, the vote on the No More Loopholes Act was a litmus test. And the Carney government failed. They picked the side of militarism and American weapons companies. The side of Trump and Netanyahu. The side of genocide and war crimes.
This article was published in
Volume 56 Number 7 - March 13, 2026
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/TML2026/Articles/T560072.HTM
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