‘He’s calling for the arrest of the country that has been the victim of all of these attacks’
“Canada supports international law,” Trudeau told Toronto radio host John Moore Friday morning. “We have to trust that the institutions we’ve built to protect international law are actually going to do their job.”
“Everyone wants to support decisions on the international stage that they agree with, but that’s not the way a justice system works.”
“Israel was attacked by terrorists on Oct 7. The warrant issued by the ICC today against Netanyahu and Gallant claims their crimes started as early as October 8. A day Israel was in shock, grief and mourning. The ICC discredits itself by its actions today,” he wrote.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blasted Trudeau over his defence of the ICC warrants on Friday, calling the prime minister’s position “ridiculous.”
“It just shows once again how extreme Justin Trudeau has become,” Poilievre told AM640’s Greg Brady.
In a separate interview, he added, “The prime minister of Israel is a democratically elected leader whose country is responding to an unprovoked invasion, by thousands of well-armed Iranian funded terrorists who … carried out mass rape and other atrocities deliberately targeted at civilians.”
He said the prime minister should instead be calling for the arrest of the leaders of Iran, who fund and promote terrorism, including the Hamas attacks.
“But instead, he’s calling for the arrest of the country that has been the victim of all of these attacks,” he said.
Israel never signed on to the Rome Statute establishing the ICC in 1998, and has repeatedly maintained that the court has no jurisdiction over its affairs.
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