Montreal mayor rejects calls to make foreign policy a city matter ahead of council vote on anti-Israel proposal

Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada on Monday rejected the idea that the city should set foreign policy as the city council prepared to vote on a motion to suspend institutional ties with Israel.“The role of city council is not to dictate foreign policy,” Martinez Ferrada said at a press conference ahead of the scheduled vote. “That is the role of the government of Canada.”The motion, introduced by the opposition Projet Montréal on June 4, was originally scheduled for a June 15 council meeting. Martinez Ferrada later removed it from the agenda, pushing the vote to Aug. 24.The proposal calls on Montreal to recognize and denounce what it describes as an “apartheid regime” in Palestine and “genocide” there, while expressing solidarity with Palestinians and other civilian victims of the conflict. It also calls for suspending institutional ties with Israel’s current government, its institutions and municipalities, including by no longer inviting Israeli…

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