Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, in an interview with the Globe and Mail at the (disgusting) Munich Security Conference, said: "We will not open diplomatic relationships with Iran unless there is a regime change. Period." She also announced further sanctions against seven individuals who are "linked to Iranian state bodies responsible for intimidation, violence and transnational repression targeting Iranian dissidents and human-rights defenders. The repressive Iranian regime must curtail the consistent and illegal violation of Iranian human rights, including by respecting international law and international humanitarian law."
Such a statement by a foreign-affairs minister should be taken as a resignation from the job as it defies any diplomatic norms. But such is normal posturing from Canada, being one of the most preachy governments on the world stage. Such policy pronouncements are not confined by party lines – the Harper (Conservative) government severed diplomatic relations with Iran in 2012 and in 2024, the Trudeau government placed the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is essentially their army, on their list of international terrorist groups. The Canadian government (and others) continues to maintain that many more were killed in the "peaceful protests" than the Iranian government reveals, even though they have provided a full list of names and IDs of the people killed, many of whom were police and security officers trying to combat the foreign-assisted regime-change efforts. See "Iranin 'protests' Explainer" and WSJ article on U.S.-smuggled StarLink terminals.
In foreign relations, it is imperative to recognize that other peoples and their governments have their own ways of doing things according to their own civilization's norms. Iran, for one, is a real nation and culture with thousands of years of history. They don't deserve to be preached to by the likes of Canada or any other capitalist nation. Such preaching mirrors colonialism where the invading country tries to convert the "savages" to the invading country's religion. Yet Canada applies that scheme in every international diplomatic or trade relationship. As if you can only trade with other cultures that share your precise belief systems. And the application of such preaching is naturally selectively applied. Here, they castigate Iran for having a government based on Shiite Muslim principles, yet try to negotiate as equals with a government run by absolute pedophiles. Shame upon shame.
The Globe and Mail article says that Ms. Anand would not say whether Canada would support a U.S. military strike on Iran. But advocating for regime change in any country is already a crime against the U.N. Charter, and "sanctioning" any nation or person while not having the power that the U.S. has in operating the world-reserve currency, is just pathetic posturing. All these measures indicate the lie of an imagined Western Superiority and the rest of the world is probably very tired of being at the receiving end of this nonsense.
As well, other nations and cultures could very well treat the relationship between individuals and the common good in a different light than is perceived in Canada. Here, too much emphasis is placed on the notion (from historical liberalism) of the supremacy of the Individual, as if every person is capable of functioning in this imagined capacity. And obviously a large number (if any) are not, as demonstrated in last week's school mass-murder in the high school in Tumble Ridge, B.C., in which a teenager, having been, if you can believe it, subjected to six ECT shock treatments – a holdover from the 1950's, was allowed loose in society and had access to guns, when in fact they should have been permanently on a work farm. It is ridiculous and obviously extremely dangerous that the psychiatrists and psychologists try to run their sociological experimentation in the open community. The imagined "rights" of individualism cannot override the common good if society is to function at all.
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