"While this could be seen as strongest language from Ottawa ..."

IN GRAMMAR, «COULD» is a modal verb typically used to express possibility. @NahayatT wisely includes it.

Statement by Transport Min Omar Alghabra @OmarAlghabra is NOT strong, it is weak.

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IT READS AS an empty avowal of advocacy. #Iran, too, will undoubtedly view it for what it is, timorous.

THE (MORE) IMPORTANT QUESTION,is why issue a spiritless and irresolute statement?For domestic theatre?Does it send another message?
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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.
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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.

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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.

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@OmarAlghabra calls it a "tragedy".

"Tragedy" is more great loss and misfortune, even calamity. It's benign and it minimizes.

FIRSTLY, it flies in the face of a recent Ontario Superior Court ruling: "The plaintiffs have established that the shooting down of Flight 752 by
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the defendants was an act of terrorism and constitutes 'terrorist activity' ..."

SAID IN OTHER WORDS, it has been now ruled that this was NOT an accident, but deliberate; NOT a tragedy, but an ATROCITY

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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)]:
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SAID IN OTHER WORDS,this was not an accident or tragedy, but an ATROCITY [literally, a 'mass murder'].

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