Thank you, Chair.
Dr. Imseis, I'm just a member of Parliament from Calgary. I'm not a legal expert, and I don't teach at one of the finest universities in the country.
In your April 2025 statement to the ICJ, you said, “UNRWA is the last hope that the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip, have of surviving Israel's genocide against them.” You have repeatedly described Israel's response to the October 7 massacre as genocide, as you did here today.
It's such a passionate debate, filled with very emotional content, and I'm trying to have an empirical conversation about it. It's a fair question: Do you apply the same legal and moral standard to Hamas's deliberate killing of 1,200 civilians, systemic sexual violence and hostage taking on October 7, or does international law bind only the Jewish state?