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It now seems clear that Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians when he said, in recognizing the Palestinian state on July 30, 2025, that Canada’s support was “predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms.”

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These included, “commitments by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.”

On the issue of demilitarization, Carney said, “Hamas must disarm and … must play no role in the future governance of Palestine.”

When a policy is “predicated” on certain actions taking place, the plain and simple meaning of the word is that these actions are supposed to happen before the policy comes into effect.

In law, this is known as a “condition precedent,” meaning the specified actions must be established before a contract becomes legally binding and enforceable.

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