Canada Follows Orders on Anti-Russian Sanctions: The Kremlin Reacts
NOVANEWS
By Christopher Black
New Eastern Outlook
“Canada’s decision to extend its anti-Russia sanctions under the false pretext of hypocritically championing human rights is absolutely pointless and reprehensible,” read a November 3 statement from the Russian embassy in Ottawa.
Pointless and reprehensible. Reprehensible this action is but there is a point, the point being to create as much anti-Russian feeling among Canadians as possible and to support the American governments tightening economic blockade of Russia in retaliation for insisting on its own sovereignty, the right to run its own affairs and for insisting on protecting its own international interests as in Syria and along its borders.
On Friday November 3, Canada invoked the so-called Magnitsky Law to slap sanctio...