Mark Carney says that Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he travelled to Canada.
The prime minister made the remark in an interview with British journalist Mishal Husain on her podcast released Friday. In the 37-minute episode, Carney touched on a wide range of topics. He talked about why he ran for office, what he learned from U.S. President Donald Trump and what his next steps were after recognizing Palestinian statehood.
The end goal “is a free and viable Palestinian state living side by side, peace and security, with the state of Israel,” said Carney.
The actions of the Netanyahu government, he said, “were explicitly designed to end any possibility of a state of Palestine in violation of the UN charter and going against Canadian government policy of whatever political stripe