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The Globe and Mail: Canada is The Second Largest Source of Arms to Saudi Arabia

News – Yemen: A press report revealed the continuation of the massive flow of Canadian weapons to Saudi Arabia, despite the Canadian government's allegations of war crimes and human rights violations before public opinion.

And a report issued by the Canadian newspaper “The Globe and Mail” confirmed today, Monday, that “Canada is the second largest exporter of arms to Saudi Arabia after the United States, as it sold $1.5 billion worth of weapons in 2022, according to the authorities in Ottawa.”

The report added, "Saudi Arabia is a major part of the Canadian foreign customer base for security equipment during the year 2022. Saudi Arabia accounted for 54% of the value of total military exports from Canada to non-American destinations."

 

The report continued, "Canadian arms exports to Saudi Arabia amounted to more than $1.7 billion in 2021, with an increase of $1.3 billion in 2020."

 

The report indicated that “this comes at a time when Freedom House for Human Rights ranked Saudi Arabia, for the tenth year in a row, as one of the worst countries in the world in the field of human rights, and the failure to” pay attention to the suffering of the Yemeni People at a time when it claims that states it defends human rights.”

 

The report stated that almost all Canadian arms exports to Saudi Arabia are armored fighting vehicles equipped with machine guns or anti-tank guns, as part of a $15 billion contract brokered by the Harper government and approved by current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

 

The report pointed out that “the organization, which was monitoring the war and investigating possible war crimes, criticized arms sales from Canada and other countries to Saudi Arabia, including the United States and Britain.

 

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