On Monday March 18 a majority of MPs voted in favour of a non-binding motion that included the demand for Canada to stop exporting arms to Israel (a one-way arms embargo).Over the following two days, Minister Joly and Global Affairs Canada stated that Canada will follow up on the motion by suspending approval of any further permits for military exports to Israel.This is a huge departure from Canada’s longstanding support of Israel, and it is a really big deal. Movement pressure successfully pushed the Canadian government to commit to suspending these arms exports. Once this policy is in place, we will have forced Canada to take a truly historic step for a G7 country and major ally of Israel. This news is already prompting outrage from the pro-Israel lobby and making waves internationally.This is a big deal, but it is not yet an arms embargo. While the Canadian government is promising to stop approving any more arms permits to Israel, they have not committed to actually stopping the transport of arms for those permits that have previously been approved. Any suspension that excludes the record-breaking number of arms approvals for Israel that our  government pushed through in Oct-Dec makes a mockery of our collective demand for an arms embargo. They also have not committed to ending the import of weapons from Israel. These are the steps the government now needs to take — and that we are going to organize and mobilize to make sure they take — to enact a full, real arms embargo on Israel. Commit to stopping approvals of military export permits to Israel Publish a policy update suspending all new export permits to Israel on Global Affairs Canada website Stop the transfer of arms that were already approved for export to Israel Close the loophole by banning weapons going to Israel via the United States Make the embargo two-way by stopping the purchase of weapons from Israel.This progress would never have happened without the powerful and escalating grassroots organizing across the country demanding an arms embargo. But this is not the time to declare victory and move on — quite the opposite.It is a critical moment to ramp up the pressure in order to make this real and actually stop the flow of all military goods to and from Israel.