The campaign to pressure the party to leave the group was initiated in part because the leadership 'suppressed debate' on a resolution about Israel-Palestine relations at the party convention in February, said Yves Engler, an activist and NDP member.
NDP delegates protest during the party convention in February in Ottawa. The activist wing of the party has said that the party leadership did not allow for sufficient debate on a resolution on Canada-Israel relations.
The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
A diverse coalition of activists, academics, and NDP members is calling on the federal New Democrats to “disassociate” itself from a parliamentary group that seeks to deepen engagement with Israel.
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New prescribed policies, procedures forced people to think about how they were acting, creating a 'profound' change in terms of staff understanding how they need to relate in the workplace, says the PMO's Marci Surkes.
'I think [the Canadian government] needs to demonstrate a stronger case that there is a real security problem and it has never been able to do so,' says former diplomat Daniel Livermore.
Ontario ISG Senator Rosemary Moodie says the new group shows the ‘significant investment’ the Senate is putting into pursuing ‘meaningful improvement.’
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Requiring free, prior, and informed consent is not a veto, says a former judge, it’s about how the government ‘operationalizes’ its approach to projects early on.
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