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Change approach with Riyadh beyond human rights if Canada wants to rebuild relationship with Saudi Arabia, says former ambassador

'I think Canada wouldn't mind if [the relationship] improves, but I don't think at the political level there is a commitment to do it,' says former diplomat Dennis Horak.

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in April that an agreement between Canada and Saudi Arabia to resume the export of light armoured vehicles isn't a sign that the two countries have normalized their relationship. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

September 9, 2020

With little apparent progress to resolve the diplomatic impasse between Canada and Saudi Arabia, Ottawa will have to change its approach with Riyadh if it wants to normalize relations, say experts. Since Canada raised the case of two Saudi dissidents in a tweet in August 2018, its relationship with...

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