In 2020, as part of the campaign to stop Canada’s bid for a UNSC seat, Just Peace Advocates conducted an analysis of Canada’s votes this century at the UN. Later, that year, we provided an analysis of Canada’s votes at the UNGA since 1947. In preparation for the 2025 UN Votes on Palestine that are expected in coming weeks, Just Peace Advocates has updated this analysis, and launched a new graphic timeline.
In summary, Canada’s vote at the UN since 1947 shows at best conditional support for Palestine. More realistically, Canada’s votes ebb and flow as its concern for its image as a ‘peacekeeping’ nation falters.
A few key points:
- The UN database reveals a strong and consistent pro-Israel vote by Canada over the last seventy years.
- While the shift to voting no’ consistently began in 2011, Canada cast its first ‘no’ in 1949. Following 1967, it continued to cast many ‘no’ votes.
- In the 1970s and 80s, a ‘yes’ vote is often misleading as these resolutions were not specifically focused on the rights of the Palestinian people. Rather, they were generally related to peacekeeping or other issues that served the occupier, at least as much as the occupied.
- Analysis of votes in the period after the Oslo Accord, shows the international community voting ‘yes’ more consistently. Canada joined that trend within the context of Oslo language and voting in support of motions that condemned aspects of the occupation.
- Overall, between 1947 and November 19 2025, Canada voted ‘yes’ 48%, ‘no’ 28%, and abstained 24% of the time. This does not accurately reflect support for the Palestinian people based on the notes above.
Canada’s ‘yes’ votes are simply a smoke screen. Canada is voting ‘yes’ while arming Israel to commit genocide, uphold its illegal occupation, and further entrench apartheid. It is these votes, this type of ineffectual action that demonstrates to civil society that international law, while purporting to be effective, can be blatantly ignored and is only enforced against the Global South.
Check out the details on our new timeline of Canada’s UN Voting.
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Analysis shows about half-a-billion dollars annually makes it way from Canadian charities to Israel, be it through donations to Israeli recipients, operating funds, scholarships, support to Israeli universities or funds to non-qualified donors.
On November 15th, Karen Rodman of Just Peace Advocates gave testimony to the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility in Ottawa and online regarding the complicity of Canadian charities. Listen here.
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