Canada’s Vote at UN 2019

In addition to Canada’s orphan “yes” vote at the UN General Assembly this year on “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination” resolution, Canada voted against (15) or abstained on (2) resolutions calling out Israel’s occupation, war crimes and human rights violations.
The lone vote can only be seen as deceptive and hypocritical.

(The UN resolutions database is not fully updated; if needed, please click on the link on “Canada” under any resolution and go to “committee report” for further info.)

  1. A/RES/74/10 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 92 in favour to 13 against including Canada, with 61 abstentions.
  2. A/RES/74/11 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 147 in favour to 7 against including Canada, with 13 abstentions.
  3. A/RES/74/12 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 87 in favour to 23 against including Canada, with 54 abstentions
  4. A/RES/74/13 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Global Communications of the Secretariat 144 in favour to 8 against including Canada, with 14 abstentions.
  5. A/RES/74/14 The Syrian Golan 91 in favour to 9 against including Canada, with 65 abstentions.
  6. A/RES/74/75 The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East 152 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, United States), with 24 abstentions.
  7. A/RES/74/83 Assistance to Palestine refugees 169 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 9 abstentions (Cameroon, Canada, Guatemala, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Vanuatu).
  8. A/RES/74/84 Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities 162 votes in favour to 7 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, United States), with 11 abstentions.
  9. A/RES/74/85 Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East  167 votes in favour to 6 against (Canada, Israel, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States), with 7 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Guatemala, Nauru, Rwanda, Vanuatu).
  10. A/RES/74/86 Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues 163 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, United States), with 12 abstentions.
  11. A/RES/74/87 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories 81 in favour to 13 against including Canada, with 80 abstentions.
  12. A/RES/74/88 Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan 157 in favour to 7 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, United States), with 15 abstentions.
  13. A/RES/74/89 Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem 157 in favour to 9 against (Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, United States), with 13 abstentions.
  14. A/RES/74/90 The occupied Syrian Golan 157 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 20 abstentions including Canada. GA/12228
  15. A/RES/74/137  “A global call for concrete action for the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action” 135 in favour to 9 against (Czech Republic, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, United Kingdom, United States), with 43 abstentions
  16. A/RES/74/139 The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination 167 in favour including Canada to 5 against (Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru and the US) with 11 abstentions.
  17. A/RES/74/208 Oil slick on Lebanese shores 162 in favour to 7 against including Canada, with 7 abstentions.
  18. A/RES/74/243 Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources 160 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, United States), with 15 abstentions.