Reply #5: "media reports"

[MrPrax]

You forgot the part that the media reports were a complete fabrication done precisely to influence the vote in the Canadian Parliament.

Moreover, Peggy Nash's argument which was the saem argument held by many during the Parliamentary review, was that ironically since Canada was actively involved in the negotiations between the IRA/Shin Fein and the various governments...many hold that the IRA are terrorists (esp. in a commomwealth country like Canada)...peacekeeping and peacemaking often involved talking and dealing with folks you don't like...

But that shouldn't stop the government or any government from pursuing their OWN national interests over the objections of an ultra-minority of people who wish Canada's policy was the same as one faction's policy in Israel; Likud.