Trudeau’s Saudi-deal struggle: dollars and jobs, or credibility and integrity

The continued sale of Canadian-made light armoured vehicles to the Saudi regime illustrates the federal government’s hypocrisy.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 and never came out alive. The Saudi government now admits his death inside the consulate was ‘premeditated.’ April Brady photograph courtesy of the Project on Middle East Democracy

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

October 31, 2018

OTTAWA—In the bizarre world of international espionage it would seem that foreign spy agencies are more bungling than Hollywood comedy characters Austin Powers and Johnny English. First it was the alleged Russian assassination attempt on a former double agent. According to the latest account from...

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