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Canada's Mideast Shift
(Toronto Star)Lynda Hurst - Every year at the UN, a predictable series of anti-Israel, pro-Palestine resolutions are placed before the General Assembly. And every year, in an attempt to appear unbiased, Canada joins Europe in abstaining on the more ferociously worded of them. But on Dec. 1, Canada joined the U.S. in voting No to a resolution extending the mandate of the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. No one seemed to notice that on the same day, Canada voted in favor of or abstained from five other, less inflammatory pro-Palestinian resolutions. Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew explained that from now on, Canada would judge each of the 20 or so annual resolutions on its own merit.