The international press chose to cover Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s only speech in Australia, given at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, by concentrating on the Prime Minister’s “revised” position on the U.S.–Iran war.
In both his comments on Iran and on Canada-Australia relations, Carney echoed the theme of his sophistical “middle powers unite” speech in Davos.
On the war issue he basically repeated his official short statement published the same day, March 3, on the Prime Minister’s website. In the statement, Carney laments that he must support the US actions against Iran. “We take this position with regret,” he feigns, “because the current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of United Nations Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and a succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran’s nuclear threat remains. And now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting with allies, including Canada.”
Rather than condemning the US and Israel for that, Carney condemns Iran for carrying out retaliatory strikes across the region.
