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IN THE COMING WEEKS that answer will begin to take shape.
PLAINLY, Transport Minister ALGHABRA has not been authorized to refer to #PS752 as an «ATROCITY». He remains shackled by PMO @CanadianPM to a narrative that permits the use of "tragedy" only.
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In closing, the remarks offered by @RalphGoodale are hoary political buttressing. One can expect #Iran will see through his words (and in turn, disregard them) as being meant for solely for domestic Canadian consumption.
AS A FORMER @rcmpgrcpolice#RCMP (Ret'd), and risking serious understatement, it is outrageous that @CommrRCMPGRC has decided to NOT open a Canadian criminal investigation.
2/5 IT FLIES IN THE FACE of the Criminal Code of Canada with respect to "act of terrorism", the provisions of which formed the subject of a decision by Ontario Superior Court Justice Belobaba.
AS A RESULT, there exist sufficient grounds, authourity and jurisdiction to warrant
3/5 the opening of a Canadian criminal investigation.
THE INTENTIONAL SHOOTING DOWN of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 with 55 Canadian citizens aboard (and 30 permanent residents), by any definition or understanding, constitutes a 'mass murder' event.
THERE'S A (SHAMEFUL) 'Ministerial shell game' underway.
"Without such answers,how can we ever be confident that Iran's airspace is safe for international civil aviation ... we are doing all we can to prevent another tragedy?"@OmarAlghabra
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WHILE Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra addresses the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) with a "symbolic gesture" for #PS752, it is done solely in the context of the Safer Skies Initiative, a Canada-established initiative protecting global civil aviation.
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THAT SAID, for one of the worst mass murders of Canadian citizens in history, omitted was any mention that no Canadian criminal investigation is open.
IN FACT, RCMP Commissioner Lucki made her decision in spite of a recent Ontario court ruling
It stands out and is completely incongruous with the emerging fact pattern of this case.
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IT READS ❮AS IF❯ downing of #PS752 was nothing more than a matter of negligence, a 'failure to take proper care in doing something.'
THIS WEEK "Kingston [City] Council has decided to move the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald to his gravesite, pending Indigenous consultation." @PaulSoucyygk via @CKWS_TV@globalnews#YGK
3/5 THE HORRIFYINGLY RUTHLESS use by Amherst of this crude form of biological warfare was callous brutality and a crime against humanity.
AND YET Amherst Island, named in honour of Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, and its
2/7 This position adopted is untenable. And, I have every confidence that it cannot be sustained.
FIRSTLY, it flies in face of a recent Ontario Superior Court ruling by Justice Edward Belobaba [Zarei v Iran, 2021 ONSC 3377 | Court File No. CV-20-635078 (dated 20210520)]:
3/7 "The plaintiffs have established that the shooting down of Flight 752 by the defendants was an act of terrorism and constitutes 'terrorist activity'..." p. 12
SAID IN OTHER WORDS,this was not an accident or tragedy, but an ATROCITY [literally, a 'mass murder'].
SAID MILDLY, regardless of the eventual determination that will be made with respect to the appropriateness of "terrorism (-related)" charges in this horrific case ±
3/3 such a statement made by Members of Parliament, who are persons in authority, is at the very least premature and not appropriate.
THIS STATEMENT can be viewed in different ways. But regardless of how it appears,it contributes to a perception that the course and outcome of ±