Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is welcoming Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to Canada Friday as the federal Liberals keep quiet about a democratic backslide in his country.
"There is too much silence, and I think we are on the edge in Poland," said Marcin Gabrys, a political scientist with Jagiellonian University in Krakow."How can you have a shared commitment to democracy when there is a clear threat to the electoral process?"
On Monday, the U.S. State Department expressed concern over a new law "that could be misused to interfere with Poland's free and fair elections." The topic is a sore point for PiS, which in 2018 outlawed truthful statements that some Poles were complicit in Nazi war crimes.Two years ago, Morawiecki's government limited abortions to cases where a pregnancy resulted from a criminal act or posed a serious health risk. The party has called out LGBTQ rights as "an attack on the family and children" and turned a blind eye to municipalities and regions declaring themselves "LGBT-free zones.
Canada and Poland have been ramping up military collaboration since Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine. He's watching to see if Poland makes a request for Canadians to train European soldiers in specialty equipment or in winter conditions, or to station more Canadian soldiers in the region. Gabrys expects Morawiecki to praise Canada for resettling Ukrainians who fled to Poland last year and for funding projects to help integrate those staying in that country.
The country is looking to Canada for know-how in carbon-capture technology and the fledgling nuclear field of small modular reactors.
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