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Twenty-seven years after the signing of the Canada–Israel Free Trade Agreement, this extension of preferential trade terms to Israel makes less sense than ever. Structured to encompass Canadian trade throughout both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Canada–Israel Free Trade Agreement has produced a record with clear winners and losers.
’s new report, entitled Annexing Palestine Through Trade, documents how Canadian trade policy has served to entrench the Israeli occupation over Palestinian objections. And the contradiction is stunning. On the one hand, Canada formally opposes any annexation by Israel of territories occupied since 1967.
received official word to this effect in 2022 from the PA's West Bank administration in a position paper addressing this question. PA concerns have been “officially relayed to several Canadian foreign ministers,” the paper explains, including current Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. Palestinian civil society is even more emphatic.
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