Sorry, I'm speaking for myself here, not the Canadian government. If you want to claim that I don't have the moral high ground, feel free, but seeing as you don't know anything about me, it might have a tough time. If you want to internalize the policies of other countries and thereby abrogate your own responsible to oppose injustice, that's fine for you but don't say I can't criticize other governments because someone else did something that I don't support.
It is the very fact that I don't know anything about you that means I also have no idea on what you mean by this term, "the problems with
Canadian democracy". Generally speaking the protests over the existence of reservations is long over inside Canada, not everyone from outside would agree that we are as 'socially moral' as we claim to be.
We don't pay any attention to the 'outside' when it comes to 'baby seals' and when 10,000 get swept out to sea even the ones who are actively picketing still see it as dollars going over the horizon. Personally I think if you want to wear sealskin you should have to have it as a meal just once.
Another point could be if 'Canada' supports the US/Israel have openly said they actively support the political instability inside Iran by subversive means. As a Canadian I would certainly have objections to that sort of activity being waged in Canada yet many Canadians/Americans/ British/Israeli citizens feel we have the right/obligation to actively influence events in Iran or any other Nation.
Can we rightfully condemn a Nation on the way they treat women when their rights as people 100 years ago in Canada was not any better?
True story, in the late 70's when Afghanistan was making great strides in the human-rights dept it was the 'old guard' that suddenly got money/material supplies from the CIA that included throwing acid in women's faces as part of their 'campaign' against modernization. That pretty much eliminates me wanting to support the US in any of their 'foregn operations' as those tactics would still be approved in today's climate. Their profits for their corporations do not mean that much to me, ...... apparently and that just defines the right/wrong of it for myself.
At least we all don't live in igloos.
That is true, many are homeless entirely, nothing to brag about.