The jurist and former director of UNRWA's legal office in Gaza, Johann Soufi, noted that #Canada, who was to present oral arguments in the case, begged off from doing so at the last moment.
His speculation was that it may have been out of "shame" at the optics of publicly defending the indefensible.
Here is Canada's version of defending the indefensible, a position which Global Affairs Canada states is "unchanged":