{"id":24207,"date":"2017-06-23T08:11:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24207"},"modified":"2017-06-23T08:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:11:48","slug":"saudi-arabia-top-non-u-s-destination-for-canadian-arms-exports-federal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24207","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia top non-U.S. destination for Canadian arms exports: federal report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saudi Arabia top non-U.S. destination for Canadian arms exports: federal report<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

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LAVs (light armoured vehicles) and components similar to the one pictured above are among the top military exports Canada sends to Saudi Arabia. (Bill Graveland\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Saudi Arabia has regained its title as Canada’s top non-U.S. destination for exporting military goods after having been narrowly bumped last year by the United Kingdom, according to\u00a0a federal report on arms sales.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a>, prepared by Global Affairs Canada and tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, reveals that the Saudi government purchased over $142 million worth of Canadian arms in 2016. That accounted for nearly 20 per cent of all Canadian munitions exports reported in the annual filing.<\/p>\n

The report does not factor in\u00a0arms exports to the United States,\u00a0due to a long-standing\u00a0exemption agreement. However, as stated in the report,\u00a0as a general rule shipments to the U.S. account for nearly 50 per cent of all military good exports from Canada.<\/p>\n

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The total value of military goods sold abroad\u00a0to countries other than the U.S.\u00a0last year nearly reached $718 million. Canada’s NATO partners and traditional allies made up the bulk of the export market, including Australia, which purchased $115.8 million of Canadian-made equipment \u2014 second behind Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The sales to Saudi Arabia, however, will likely the draw the most attention and potential criticism from human rights groups, which have fought a protracted battle to halt the $14.8-billion sale of light armoured vehicles by General Dynamics Land Systems Canada \u2014 a deal\u00a0approved by the former Conservative government, but green-lit by the Liberals.<\/p>\n

The executive director for the anti-armament group Project Ploughshares says the most recent report once again signals an unwillingness on the part of the government to change its stance on Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabia top non-U.S. destination for Canadian arms exports: federal report LAVs (light armoured vehicles) and components similar to the one pictured above are among the top military exports Canada sends to Saudi Arabia. (Bill Graveland\/Canadian Press) Saudi Arabia has regained its title as Canada’s top non-U.S. destination for exporting military goods after having been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12679,103,3000,15418,15419,701],"class_list":["post-24207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arms-sales","tag-canada","tag-cbc-news","tag-jacques-marcoux","tag-murray-brewster","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24208,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207\/revisions\/24208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}