Cancel Saudi arms deal now, don’t wait for the other shoe to drop

The feds should bite the bullet and contract General Dynamics to build a light armoured vehicle fleet for the Canadian military instead.

It’s embarrassing to watch Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland preach about defending human rights while simultaneously fearing the cancellation of a contract to supply Saudi Arabia with the combat capability to commit further repression, writes Scott Taylor. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

August 15, 2018

There was a very disturbing news story last week about a Saudi Arabian airstrike in Yemen that killed 50 civilians and injured a further 77. What was particularly upsetting about this incident was that the main thing hit had been a school bus and the majority of the victims were young children. The ...

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