OTTAWA - Israel's envoy to Canada says dialogue between his government and Ottawa has "deteriorated" since Prime Minister Mark Carney took office — and suggests his "hard line" on Gaza explains why Carney still hasn't spoken by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Since the government of Carney came into place, the level of dialogue between the two countries slowly but surely deteriorated," Israel Ambassador Iddo Moed told The Canadian Press on Monday.

Carney's office referred questions about Moed's comments to the office of Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, which declined to provide a response.

Ottawa co-signed a statement with the United Kingdom and France in May demanding that Israel end its war in Gaza, which Moed said amounted to a "very hard line towards Isra

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