Registry of Lobbyists
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Immigration, Justice and Law Enforcement, National Security/Security
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Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada.
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Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development, International Relations
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Advocacy for an immediate and unconditional recognition of the State of Palestine and for Canada to adopt a non-interventionist position on the internal politics of the state, Palestinian authority, PLO.
For Canada to end military and policing ties to the Palestinian Authority.
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Policies or Program
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Defence, International Relations, International Trade
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Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.
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Regulation, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
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Budget, International Development, International Relations
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Advocating for increases to all development assistance in support of Palestine and in particular increased funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
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Regulation, Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
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International Relations, Justice and Law Enforcement
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Advocating repeal of the federal government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
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Immigration, National Security/Security
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Changing the way the government applies the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to ensure Canada's migration regime is not engaging in systemic anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia.
Pushing for reforms to the act to ensure it is consistent with international law and human rights.
Ensuring Canada's migration streams are not based on anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia.
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Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Federal-Provincial Relations, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, International Relations, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, Municipalities, Pensions, Taxation and Finance
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Encouraging a whole-of-government approach to ending Canadian complicity in Israeli settlements. Ensuring Canada enforces its war crimes legislation. Stopping Canadian participation in the settlement economy through legislative options to stop the import of goods from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory and the end to real estate sales in Israeli settlements.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
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The mission of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East is to promote justice, development and peace in the Middle East, and here at home in Canada. Its initiatives include grassroots campaigns to promote and empower political engagement; policy and research to promote a human-rights-centred approach to Canada’s foreign policy; interaction with the media to promote more accurate reporting of events in the Middle East; and educational initiatives to inform Canadians and policymakers about key issues and events in the region.
Thomas Woodley, President
Address:
580 Sainte-Croix
Suite 060
Saint-Laurent, QC H4L 3X5
Canada
Telephone number:
438-380-5410