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John Ivison: Canada backing Iran at the UN betrays what Carney stood for at Davos

The day after the Liberals secured their majority in the House of Commons there was a sense that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

In this case, it was the reminder that at 2:15 p.m. in the House, it is still “question period,” not “answer period.”

On Tuesday, Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong rose to ask the government why it had voted in favour of Iran’s membership to the United Nations Committee for Program and Coordination, which shapes UN policy on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.

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