![]() ![]() Canada’s signing of the international Arms Trade Treaty, which prohibits exporting weapons used to commit or facilitate human rights abuses, has also failed to slow such exports. ![]() ![]() This dispute culminated in an official Saudi government account tweeting an image of a plane flying into Toronto’s skyline, captioned with the Arabic saying, “He who interferes with what doesn’t concern him finds what doesn’t please him.”ĭespite this thinly veiled threat of a 9/11-style attack, Canadian military sales to Saudi Arabia have continued apace. While the kingdom ranks as Canada’s second-largest importer of all military equipment after the United States, it is by far the largest buyer of tanks and armoured vehicles.Īs researcher and York University doctoral student Anthony Fenton observed, Canada has supplied $5.9 billion worth of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia since August 2018, when the kingdom announced it would suspend “all new business and financial transactions with Canada " in response to the Canadian government criticizing the arrest of women’s rights activist, Samar Badawi.įor anyone keeping track, that's $5.9 billion worth of armored vehicles supplied to Saudi Arabia just since the still technically ongoing diplomatic rift of August 2018. The most recent data from Statistics Canada shows that in August 2022 alone, Canadian firms sold $132,445,056 worth of tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles to Saudi Arabia. It’s business as usual for Canadian military sales to Saudi Arabia, despite the theocratic kingdom’s horrific human rights record and an apparent diplomatic spat with Canada. ![]()
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