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Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, launched in 2017, stated that Canada would take an explicitly feminist approach to international assistance, including a commitment to protecting women’s sexual and reproductive rights. Many considered it to be a forward-thinking policy.
But as Israel’s offensive on Gaza marches on unabated and the civilian death toll mounts, some say Canada’s tepid response calls the strength and sincerity of its feminist commitments into doubt.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Jacqueline Potvin of Western University and Mayme Lefurgey from the University of New Brunswick argue that Canada’s government has failed to live up to its feminist policies in its response to the war in Gaza.
Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy claims to be “a reflection of who we are as Canadians.” It expresses the belief that “it is possible to build a more peaceful, more inclusive and more prosperous world... A world where no one is left behind.”
However, as Potvin and Lefurgey write, “Canada’s delayed and inconsistent response to Israel’s military violence in Gaza represents a failure to evenly apply its own foreign policy.”
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