{"id":100404,"date":"2022-06-15T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=100404"},"modified":"2022-06-15T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:53:43","slug":"foreign-affairs-minister-joins-tmu-democracy-forum-to-discuss-ukraine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/foreign-affairs-minister-joins-tmu-democracy-forum-to-discuss-ukraine-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign affairs minister joins TMU democracy forum to discuss Ukraine conflict\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) hosted a discussion focused on conflict, peace and security concerning the ongoing war in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the speakers was Canada\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Joly, who spoke on Canada\u2019s role in ensuring a peaceful resolution to the conflict.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The talk was moderated by TMU visiting professor and Toronto Star columnist, Martin Regg Cohn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joly stressed the importance of unity among NATO members and western nations against Russian aggression. She highlighted Canada's continued committment to Ukraine sovereignty, including providing military aid and support since 2014 during the eventual invasion of Crimea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next steps, according to Joly, is the NATO summit in Madrid later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Further, she mentioned the Baltic states and their own security concerns in the region<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cohn also stated the personal stake in the conflict for Ukrainian and Baltic residents in both Toronto and Canada. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to military aid, Joly said Canada\u2019s continued work to help refugees of the war includes an increase in chartered flights and visas for them to come to Canada.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This month\u2019s democracy forum returned as a hybrid event and is the first of the ongoing series to have the \"TMU\" name.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The forum is directed by TMU\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Politics and Governance program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To date, Canada has committed up to $98 million in military equipment to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 2022 budget, about $500 million is committed to continued military aid for the 2022-23 fiscal year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-national-defence\/campaigns\/canadian-military-support-to-ukraine.html\">Government of Canada website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to CJRU's coverage of the democracy forum here:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) hosted a discussion focused on conflict, peace and security concerning the ongoing war in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among the speakers was Canada\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Joly, who spoke on Canada\u2019s role in ensuring a peaceful resolution to the conflict.\u00a0 The talk was moderated by TMU visiting professor and Toronto Star columnist,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":100409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,225],"tags":[4569,15534,7087,15648,12763,15533,12765],"radio":[1380],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100886,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100404\/revisions\/100886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100404"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=100404"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=100404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}