Canada slams U.N.’s Goldstone report

09/17/2009 Canada slams U.N.'s Goldstone report for "pre-emptively assuming Israel's culpability"In the Canadian House of Commons, Hon. Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, said, "I woud remind this House that the so-called fact-finding commission was the creation of one of the United Nation's most flawed bodies, the Human Rights Council, which includes some of the UN's least democratic states. In commissioning this study, the Human Rights Council pre-emptively assumed Israel's culpability. This government has never equated Israel, a democratic…

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