Canada's UN voting record for 2023. Prime Minister: Justin Trudeau (Liberal).
1. “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources” (A/RES/78/?)
Draft resolution adopted by the committee, November 9, 2023
- 151 Yes
- 6 No (Canada)
- 11 Abstain
2. “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination” (A/RES/78/?)
Draft resolution adopted by the committee, November 10, 2023
- 168 Yes (Canada)
- 5 No
- 9 Abstain
3. “Assistance to the Palestinian people” (A/RES/78/?)
TBD
4. “Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem” (A/RES/78/?)
Resolution not considered this year. This resolution has been bi-annualized, and is now voted on every other year.
5. “Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan” (A/RES/78/?)
Draft resolution adopted by the committee, November 9, 2023
- 145 Yes
- 7 No (Canada)
- 18 Abstain
6. “Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories” (A/RES/78/?)
Around 2019, the content of this resolution was merged into Settlements and no longer comes to a separate vote.
7. “Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories” (A/RES/78/?)
Draft resolution adopted by the committee, November 9, 2023
- 85 Yes
- 13 No (Canada)
- 72 Abstain
8. “Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues” (A/RES/78/?)
Draft resolution adopted by the committee, November 9, 2023
- 156 Yes
- 6 No (Canada)
- 8 Abstain
9. “Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East” (A/RES/78/?)
Draft resolution adopted by the committee, November 9, 2023
- 160 Yes
- 4 No (Canada)
- 7 Abstain
10. “Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities” (A/RES/78/?)
Around 2020, the content of this resolution was merged into UNRWA Operations and no longer comes to a separate vote.
11. “Assistance to Palestine refugees” (A/RES/78/?)
Draft resolution adopted by the committee, November 9, 2023
- 161 Yes (Canada)
- 1 No
- 11 Abstain
Click here for Canada's explanation of vote.
TBD
13. “Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine” (A/RES/78/?)
TBD
14. “Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat” (A/RES/78/?)
Resolution not considered this year. This resolution has been bi-annualized, and is now voted on every other year.
15. “Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat” (A/RES/78/?)
Resolution not considered this year. This resolution has been bi-annualized, and is now voted on every other year.
16. “Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People” (A/RES/78/?)
Resolution not considered this year. This resolution has been bi-annualized, and is now voted on every other year.