While US President Biden takes a hard stance against the International Criminal Court decision to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Secretary Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will “abide” the decision and allow the officials to be arrested if they visited Canada.

“As Canada has always said, it’s really important that everyone abide by international law. We are one of the founding members of the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice,” he said. “We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts. This is just who we are as Canadians.”

[Mélanie Joly] “I’ll let the US take its own decisions,” Joly said. “International law needs to apply to all parties at all times. And at the same time, in order to do so, we need accountability in our world, and so based on that, Canada will abide by its obligation under the ICC treaty.”