Divergent Opinions: Canadian Leaders Differ on Downed Ukrainian Plane, Soleimani’s Death

Ayda Mohammadian speaks about her boyfriend Amir Hossein Ghorbani, who died aboard Ukraine flight 752 shot down by Iranian military, at a vigil to honour the victims at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg on Jan. 10, 2020. The Canadian Press/John Woods

OTTAWA—As Iranians took to the streets en masse to protest the shooting down of a Ukrainian plane by Iran on Jan. 8, killing all 176 passengers on board including some of their fellow citizens, political fallout in Canada took a different course.

Five days after the crash in which 57 Canadians also died, following a barrage of questions from reporters on whether U.S. President Donald Trump was to blame, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to Global News and more or less blamed the United States.