Amnesty International and Project Ploughshares say the federal government’s analysis of the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia is ‘fundamentally flawed’
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A variant of the Light Armoured Vehicles, similar to the ones ordered by the Canadian Armed Forces, sits inside the General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada factory in London, Ont. on Aug. 16, 2019. The green coloured LAV are sold to Canadian military but the sand coloured are sold to Saudi Arabia.
And so Canada exported more than $1.3-billion in military goods to Saudi Arabia in 2020, a country where, as Amnesty International reported, “repression of the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly intensified” last year.
In the Global Affairs review of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the Canadian government in part justifies the legality of weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia by pointing to a 2019 report by a panel of independent experts appointed by the United Nations to monitor the conflict in Yemen. It notes that the expert panel does not identify Canada as one of the countries contributing to the conflict through arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
“What Canada wants to see before they would stop exports is a video of a Canadian product killing a civilian,” Ploughshares researcher Kelsey Gallagher said. “You’re never going to get that.”
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