Canada’s Tories would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

26 February 2018, 9:23 pm

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Canada’s opposition Conservatives say they would follow the US lead and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, if they beat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the next election in 2019.

“Canada’s Conservatives recognize the obvious fact that Israel, like every other sovereign nation, has a right to determine where its capital is located,” the party says on its website.

As such, a Tory government led by Andrew Scheer “will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital when we form government in 2019,” it says.

The Conservatives held power from 2006 until 2015, when they were toppled by the Liberals in a general election.

— AFP