Arms exports top $1-billion, as Saudi sales spike

Critics say Canada’s 2017 military export report highlights an ongoing loophole that leaves an estimated half of total exports—those headed to the U.S.—not tracked or controlled.

Earlier this year Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office added a 'substantial risk clause' to Bill C-47 to prevent arms exports to countries with a risk of rights violations, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

June 27, 2018

Canada’s military exports jumped by almost 44 per cent in 2017 to $1.03-billion, an increase that mirrors a spike in trade with Saudi Arabia since 2016, according to a new report capturing the first reporting period of the multi-year controversial $15-billion arms d...

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