Canada to block Arab states from stripping Montreal of key UN Aerospace agency (middle east, Israel)

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OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives and Quebec’s ruling Parti Québécois government are joining forces in an attempt to block a bid to move a key United Nations agency from Montreal to Qatar.
The Qatari bid to relocate the International Civil Aviation Organization is seen as a politically motivated move in reaction to Canada’s pro-Israel policy in the Middle East.

For the bid to prevail, a minimum of 60% of the ICAO’s 191 member states must sign off, a threshold that could send a strong rebuke to Canada.

Qatar made a pitch last month to the agency about moving its Montreal headquarters to the Middle East kingdom’s capital of Doha.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Quebec’s minister of international affairs Jean-Francois Lisee will hold a news conference to present a common front on keeping the UN agency in Montreal.

Although it’s unusual for federal Conservatives and Quebec separatists to share a podium, Baird told the House of Commons Thursday that he will work with anyone to ensure the agency doesn’t move.

Baird was in Doha in early April and says Qatar officials didn’t mention they were going to make a pitch.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there is absolutely no reasonable case to move the International Civil Aviation Organization out of Montreal.

“It’s been based in Montreal for a very long time,” Harper told a news conference in Quebec City on Friday. “Montreal, Quebec, Canada have been very good hosts from everything I understand.

“I’m certainly not aware of any serious complaints about how we host the organization. Montreal’s a sophisticated city that is a hub of the aerospace industry around the world.

How can an organization that has to defend the rights and safety of workers and passengers be moved to a state whose citizens’ pleas for democracy are answered with batons and buckshot?” David Cockroft, the general secretary of the International Transport Federation, said in a statement earlier this week.

Canada has played host to the ICAO since 1946. Its current headquarters were built in the 1990s at a cost of $100 million.

Losing the ICAO would be a financial and political blow for Canada.

Montreal is the hub of Canada’s aviation industry, and its international reputation as a major player is reflected in the ICAO’s longtime residency.

The organization also feeds the city’s economy; it employs 534 staff and says it generates some $80 million annually for Montreal’s economy and 1,200 direct and indirect jobs.
source: Tories, PQ join forces to block Arab state from stripping Montreal of UN agency | Canadian Politics | Canada | News | National Post

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May the True North stay strong and free!

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I think iof Canada gets voted from a industry we have had since 1946 and are the 3RD largest comical aircraft building in the world behind Boeing and Airbus is Bombardier so we actually know what we are doing and how many planes do Qautar build either military our civilian?

Qatar made a pitch last month to the agency about moving its Montreal headquarters to the Middle East kingdom’s capital of Doha.

Baird points out that Qatar is a country with great wealth and is offering a lot of money to lure the agency to Doha, but that shouldn’t be a factor.

“We don’t think that these type of things should be for sale and we’re going to work strongly to convince other countries,” Baird said Thursday.

The history of Qatar’s alliances provides insight into the basis of their policy. Between 1760 and 1971, Qatar sought formal protection from the high transitory powers of the Ottomans, British, the Al-Khalifa’s from Bahrain, the Persians, and the Wahhabis from Saudi Arabia.

According to leaked documents published in The New York Times, Qatar's record of counter-terrorism efforts was the "worst in the region" although Qatar had been a generous host to the American military.

The cable suggested that Qatar’s security service was "hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals

So who do you trust Canada or Qatar to oversee U.N. is making sure aviation is safe since WTH is wrong with the U.N. and what some B.S. they are pulling aginst Canada where we send combat troops and are damn proud to lewt everyone know we are aligned with the U.S. but it is the country we get along best with and are each other number one trading partner and we fought in both world wars together and were with you on D-day storming the beaches of Normandy

heck more alarming Saudi Arabia is were 19 of the 20 9/11 hijacker were from and now they want to control making international aviation standards are safe and stop possible terrorist hijackings says the U.N. is bought and sold for.

I know the U.S. and pour allies will vote for us but we might get outnumbered in the voting so Remember the U.,S. U.K. and France you have U.N. security council veto powers....

I say if we lose it then we lost our only role there and have to fund it for billions yet have no role but to stand by hearing all the stupid stuff that happens there that is why NATO and NORAD/Five-eyes are the go for Canada to help and fight our defend as those are our get things done and save our butts departments and screw the U.N.