OTTAWA — Advocates for international law say Ottawa is letting Washington chip away at the global rules-based order by remaining silent a week into American sanctions against a Canadian jurist.

On Aug. 20, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Kimberly Prost, a judge on the International Criminal Court who authorized a probe into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.

Prost, a Canadian citizen who was raised in Winnipeg, will have any U.S. assets frozen, and she could have difficulty accessing financial services in Canada.

The U.S. State Department also sanctioned citizens of France, Fiji and Senegal over their role in the ICC’s investigation of Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

The French government said it was “appalled” by the move and called it an

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