Is Canada Breaking With the US?

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Was Canada expected to follow G7 nations on recognizing a Palestinian state? Michael Jabri-Pickett, Managing Director of This Is Dubai, shares his thoughts. Palestine

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00:00So we heard from Canada's Prime Minister there, Mark Carney.

00:04Did you expect Canada, actually fellow Canadian here,

00:09to follow G7 nations and make this announcement

00:13on recognising a Palestinian state possibly in the future?

00:17I didn't think it would happen.

00:18I certainly didn't think it would happen like this.

00:20I think, though, that there's a groundswell within the international community.

00:25The images that people are seeing of Palestinians starving,

00:28I think that has turned and that has inspired Macron a couple of weeks ago

00:34to be the first.

00:36Keir Starmer followed with, again, conditions.

00:40Mark Carney now has come out.

00:41And it surprises me as a Canadian because we are usually very much

00:46in lockstep when it comes to foreign policy with the Americans.

00:51I think the one area where we deviated over the years was our policy with Cuba.

00:55Aside from that, pretty much where the Americans stood,

00:59especially on Israel, the Canadians were consistent.

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