The Canadian government is going to have to respond to a demand that, working with international partners, they deploy peacekeeping forces to Gaza.
The push comes in the form of a parliamentary e-petition — one that has amassed more than 10,000 signatures since Alberta’s Chelsea Barnowich initiated it on June 26.
After a parliamentary e-petition has bene authorized by a member of Parliament (in this case, NDP MP Heather McPherson), it can start amassing signatures.
It only takes 500 of those signatures for a petition to be certified by the clerk of petitions, presented to the House of Commons, and for the government to be required to table a response.
This petition has blown that threshold out of the water. Now, the government will be forced once again to confront the horrific atrocities in Gaza.
While Canada has yet to take any concrete action relating to Gaza specifically, pressure has been rising amid leaked reports that starving Palestinians are being forced into “killing fields” at Israeli-run and U.S.-backed humanitarian aid distribution sites.
On top of all that, I’ve obtained messages from a physician currently in Gaza who says Israeli forced confiscated baby formula he attempted to bring to the region.
Baby formula.
We’ll cover all of this in today’s video.
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