Before US President Donald Trump confirmed the attack on Venezuela, the interim leader of the New Democratic Party, Don Davies, posted on social media that if the action were true, it would be a flagrant violation of international law and the rules-based system that the United States claims to support.

“Canada must strongly condemn this attack and call for an immediate end to the US aggression against the sovereign state of Venezuela,” Davies stated. Meanwhile, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, Yves-Francois Blanchet, expressed his concern that the United States “is acting as a policeman at the risk of ignoring international law, particularly by resorting to military force that endangers the lives of civilians and by kidnapping a head of state, even if illegitimate.”

However, contrary to the logic of international law, politicians like the leader of the conservatives, Pierre Poilievre, spoke out in favor of the bombings carried out by the United States in several Venezuelan states, and the kidnapping of the constitutional president of the South American nation, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.

This morning, in a press conference, Trump made clear the United States’ interests in Venezuelan oil and its threats to other countries that do not follow the dictates of the White House.

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