Peace, feminism, and arms exports: Canada’s inexplicable and contradictory policy choice

For the sake of peace, women’s rights and international humanitarian law, Canada must stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Sept. 23, 2020, on the Hill. Canada has made an inexplicable and contradictory policy choice by choosing to supply Saudi Arabia with weapons of war over its own feminist foreign policy, writes Aïcha Madi. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY AïCHA MADI

September 28, 2020

MONTREAL—When Canada launched the Peace and Stabilization Operation Program (PSOP) in August 2016, who could have predicted back then that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would ruin his own international peace, security and humanitarian aid efforts by supplying weapons of war to countries engaged i...

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