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How to stage a walkout

The CBC’s Margo McDiarmid explains in this clip.

Essentially, our foreign minister, Lawrence Cannon, isn’t actually physically sitting in the general assembly proceedings today because his speech isn’t until Saturday. But just before the Iranian president speaks, Mr. Cannon will walk into the assembly, go to his place in the actual room, and when the president starts to speak, he and the other Canadian delegates will leave.

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