“What Has Canada Done?” — Senator Calls Out Canada’s Complicity in Gaza War Crimes
January 9, 2026
Canada talks about human rights while Gaza burns.
A Canadian senator is openly questioning Ottawa’s role in enabling war crimes in Gaza, calling out arms ties, political cover, and moral hypocrisy at the highest levels.
When civilians are being killed, silence is not neutrality.
It is a choice.
So the question stands, louder than ever:
What has Canada actually done, and who did it protect?
#Gaza #Palestine #Canada #stopwarcrimes #fyp
English Script:
Yuen Pau Woo: I’m calling on the Government of Canada to examine the risks to Canada and Canadians of complicity in violations of international law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and to report on its findings within three months of the adoption of this motion. Why do we need this motion? Well, over the last two years, serious violations of international law have been perpetrated in Gaza. These vile acts have been live streamed on our phones and broadcast by Israeli leaders with arrogance and seeming impunity. What did we do to try and prevent it? What have we done to make it easier for Israel to commit war crimes? Why did we proscribe and punish Canadians from trying to do what they could do to raise the alarm? Why is there a double standard in the way we have responded to the situation in Gaza compared to, say, Ukraine? These are just some of the questions that my motion seeks answers to, and not just answers from the government, because these are questions we need to ask more broadly of Canadian society. How have universities acted against students and teachers advocating for Palestinian justice? What have they done about the investments in Israel? What about corporate Canada and our pension funds? How have professional bodies, hospitals, school boards weaponized anti-Semitism to silence their members from speaking out against atrocities in Palestine? Why has the media been so one sided in its reporting on the situation in Palestine? And what role did that play in allowing the genocide to unfold? What amount of foreign interference and disinformation on behalf of Israel and its allies, did our security and intelligence agencies allow in Canada in service of war crimes?
