CARICOM and Canada s foreign ministers to meet virtually on Friday
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Australia a ‘Strong Advocate’ for Human Rights, Joins Declaration by 55 Nations Against Arbitrary Detention
Australia and 55 other countries, including the United States and the UK, have launched a declaration against the use of arbitrary detention of foreign citizens to obtain political leverage in state-to-state relations.
“We are a strong advocate for promoting and protecting human rights,” Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a video message at 1 a.m. on Feb. 16.
“The right not to be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention is guaranteed in international law and states must comply with their international human rights law obligations.”
The Canada-led declaration comes in response to arbitrary detention being used by countries as bargaining chips in foreign relations.
OTTAWA The House of Commons will be forming a special committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, after the majority of MPs agreed to pass a Conservative proposal to set one up. The move passed on Tuesday with the backing of the governing Liberals, as well as the opposition Bloc Quebecois and NDP. The Green Party voted against the motion. Specifically, the committee is being tasked with evaluating “all aspects of” the economic relationship between the two nations. The move comes on the heels of U.S. President Joe Biden rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. It is expected that some of the first orders of business will include probing the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline and the consequences that would come should it be shut down, as well as the Biden administration’s ‘Buy America’ policies and the need to protect Canadian interests in light of that approach.