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cross-posted from: https://zirk.us/users/JazzyKindaFella/statuses/116063802333754119

🇨🇦 At Davos, Prime Minister
#MarkCarney declared that #Canada will "apply the same standards to allies and rivals".

In 2022 Canada barred #Russia n aircraft from Canadian airspace.

Two days ago, an Israeli plane transporting the war criminal Netanyahu flew through Canadian airspace.

https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/2022131495570485539

#politics #hypocrisy #Ottawa
#Palestine @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe #elbowsup #cdnpol #quebec #ontario #toronto #montreal @ledevoir @torontostar #winnipeg @winnipegfreepress @pivot @TheBreach

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[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Sorry, was Carney Prime Minister in 2022? What kind of idiot take for a hypocritical gotcha is this?

Fuck Netanhyahu, but talk about poor reading comprehension and posting in bad faith.

[-] AGM@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

The PM is just the leader of our government for a time, but the government has continuity. We are not under the rule of the whims of PMs. Policies are formed that have continuity with government and extend beyond whoever happens to be leader of the party with the most seats at a given time. The NOTAM for Russia is still in effect. It is a total and indefinite ban by the Canadian government, not a PM.

There is no NOTAM for Israel. The Carney government should act to correct this. The fact that Netanyahu is not under domestic sanctions in Canada and can freely traverse our airspace, as can any Israeli flight, should be corrected.

It is an obvious double standard that Canada's government is responsible for. It's made even more jarring in that Canadian airlines have been banned from the massive airspace of Russia, which is a substantial consequence, but the potential of being banned from Israeli airspace is trivial, and yet we haven't done it.

If you want to say "the ban in 2022 wasn't on Carney's watch and maybe this issue hadn't come to his attention before, so cut him some slack," okay, sure. But, now that Netanyahu has flown through Canadian airspace under his watch, what's he going to do?

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

See, this is actually a good argument.

Aren't NOTAMs specific per-flight? I've heard the term from two pilots in my life, but I'm not personally familiar with them. I was under the impression that they do not function as standing orders, meaning the specific 2022 incident was, well, specific to that incident. If there's a continuous no-fly rule for all Russian aircraft in effect, that'd have been a much more useful point than calling the one specific event.

And, for the record, I'd love to see the policy regarding Israel's flights in Canadian airspace changed. I just fail to see the hypocrisy in one event 4 years ago under a different government. If there has been a standing no-fly order since, well, that does in fact change things.

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