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Canada and Saudi Arabia agreed Wednesday to restore full diplomatic relations and appoint new ambassadors, five years after a dispute over women’s rights activists damaged relations and trade ...
The remarks by the Canadian unit of General Dynamics - which one defense expert called unusual - reflect increasing tensions over a $13 billion agreement that is becoming politically awkward for ...
In August, Saudi Arabia froze new trade with Canada, expelled envoy Dennis Horak and ordered all Saudi students home after the embassy issued an Arabic language tweet urging the immediate release ...
Saudi Arabia also said it would recall its envoy to Canada temporarily but a statement said the country maintained "its right to take further action". [14] [17] The Saudi freeze on all new trade with Canada included instructing staff to sell off all Canadian holdings, including equities, bonds and cash even if that means doing so at a loss. [18]
One of Justin Trudeau 'first foreign policy statements included a call to diffuse Sunni-Shiite tensions in the aftermath of Nimr al-Nimr's execution in Saudi Arabia. [73] After taking office, Trudeau was urged by Human Rights groups to stop the $15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia – believed to be the largest arms sale in Canadian history ...
The U.S.–MEFTA initiative started in 2003 with the purpose of creating a U.S.–Middle East Free Trade Area by 2013.. The U.S. objective with this initiative has been to gradually increase trade and investment in the Middle East, and to assist the Middle East countries in implementing domestic reforms, instituting the rule of law, protecting private property rights (including intellectual ...
Saudi Arabia: 1973-05: See Canada–Saudi Arabia relations. Saudi Arabia is Canada's second largest trade partner among the seven countries of the Arabian Peninsula, [146] totalling more than $2 billion in trade in 2005, [147] nearly double its value in 2002, trade totalled $3.8 in 2014. [148]
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is no stranger to human rights advocacy and showy displays of allyship with marginalized communities.