Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with senior members of other parties Thursday to discuss Canada's approach to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
“The meeting was held in a very candid way, by Mr. Trudeau and his entourage,” Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet told reporters in French.
Both the Bloc and NDP say they had requested such a meeting, and Blanchet said he argued that a closed-door meeting might be more informative than heated exchanges on the issue in the House of Commons.Singh's office said he raised issues he had outlined in a letter to Trudeau on Sunday. Aid groups were scheduled to appear on Parliament Hill on Thursday to ramp up their calls for more humanitarian assistance to reach Hamas-controlled Gaza, which has been under siege since the conflict began.
The trucks Israel has allowed to bring aid into the territory represent only “a small fraction of what is needed to address the needs of Palestinian civilians,” the department said. Canada designates Hamas as a terrorist group, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has continued to say that Israel has the right to defend itself, despite his government joining global calls for a temporary respite from the fighting in order to get more aid into Gaza.
There are also 17,135 Canadians who have registered as being in Lebanon, where Canadian officials are preparing for a possible evacuation if the country north of Israel is caught up in a wider conflict.
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