Canada is being pressed to call Russia a state supporter of terrorism, which would let Canadian victims pursue Russia in courts here.
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Adding Russia to the list and making it subject to private lawsuits would likely set a global precedent — as Canada has already done with its plan to actually confiscate, and not just freeze, assets of sanctioned Russians, said a leading trade and sanctions lawyer. Julie Dzerowicz, the Liberal MP who chairs the Canadian delegation to the NATO parliamentary assembly, said she raised the non-binding resolution in the House of Commons and has passed on the message to members of cabinet.
That includes supporting cases before the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, dispatching specialized RCMP officers to help in the latter’s investigations and imposing sanctions against 2,100 individuals and entities, said Blanchard.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.People are helped out of a damaged building that is part of a children’s hospital following a Russian air strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022.
But sponsoring of terror by the Russian state began well before the invasion started last Feb. 24, he contends. Its agents, allies and military have used radioactive substances to try to assassinate residents of the U.K., fired a Russian missile that brought down a Malaysian airliner in 2014 and bombed civilian targets in Syria, noted Zakydalsky.Article content
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