Saudi Arabia Canada

• Canadian firm optimistic about prospects in Saudi Arabia despite diplomatic row

  WSP Global Inc., an engineering firm headquartered in Montreal, has continued to land infrastructure work in Saudi Arabia even after a dispute erupted with Canada last summer, said Isabelle Adjahi, one of its senior vice-presidents.

  Canada

  May 3, 2019
  
• Saudi Arabia denied visas, blocked shipments at ports amid diplomatic spat with Canada: memo

  A newly released federal document provides a close look at Saudi Arabia's retaliation against Canada, following criticism by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland on Twitter of the regime's arrest of women's rights activists.

  Canada

  Apr 5, 2019
  
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• Saudi Arabia expects Canada to proceed with $15B arms deal, but there’s ‘no final decision’

  Saudi Arabia expects the deal to happen. Canada hasn't yet said what it will do about it.

  Politics

  Mar 5, 2019
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• Saudi man facing sexual assault charges in Nova Scotia ‘fled’ after embassy posted bail

  Nova Scotia's prosecution service says Mohammed Zuraibi Alzoabi had $37,500 of his bail posted by the Saudi Arabian embassy last year in relation to the alleged sexual assault

  Crime

  Jan 14, 2019
• Saudi’s jailing of women activists comes under U.K. scrutiny amid torture reports

  More than a dozen women's rights activists have been arrested since May 2018.

  World

  Jan 2, 2019
• Scrapping Saudi arms deal would cost Canada billions, LAV maker says

  General Dynamics Corp warned Ottawa on Monday the federal government would incur "billions of dollars of liability" by exiting an agreement to sell armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia.

  Canada

  Dec 17, 2018
• Liberals looking for way out of Saudi arms deal, Trudeau says

  "We are engaged with the export permits to try and see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles to Saudi Arabia," Trudeau said in an interview with CTV.

  Canada

  Dec 16, 2018
• EXCLUSIVE: Canada spent months on Saudi diplomacy before embassy suggested tweet behind firestorm

  But it appears it was the arrest of Samar Badawi that specifically prompted the Canadian embassy in Riyadh to recommend the government tweet out its concern.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2018
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• Should Trudeau keep arms deal with Saudis? More than half of Canadians say yes: poll

  While most Canadians don't want any future weapons sales with Saudi Arabia, almost half say the current $15-billion agreement to sell light armoured vehicles to the regime should stay in place, a recent poll found.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2018
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• It would cost Canada $1B to cancel Saudi arms deal in wake of Khashoggi case, Trudeau says

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't want to leave Canadians "holding a billion-dollar bill" by cancelling the controversial contract to sell armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia.

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2018