I know as compassionate Canadians it’s hard to contend with Ukrainians losing their homes to Russian aggression. It’s major power vs. major power though, the main reason Ukraine is lacking is because Putin’s bootlickers in the US have helped Russia by stalling aid for so long, and even meeting NATO commitments for 30 years would have no discernible effect compared to that.
When looking at the Israel-Palestine issue, I think it would have been a better time than any for us Canadians to respond in the same way we did in the Suez Crisis in 1956, where UK, France and Israel invaded Egypt. It would have been excellent to take a stand and intervene not necessarily supporting Palestine or Israel specifically but to end hostilities and protect civilian life in a conflict where there is blatant disregard for it from Hamas and IDF military command.
Unfortunately we basically took the US’ position without saying so explicitly. And considering the way non-combatants, humanitarian volunteers and journalists have been murdered without consequence, it’s a hard sell as Canadians to sacrifice ourselves to the war machine.