Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Majority Of Canada’s Non-U.S. Military Exports Go To Anti-Democratic Regimes
Non-U.S. exports have really seemed to go to less-than-democratic countries.

* Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

https://www.readthemaple.com/majority-of-canadas-non-u-s-arms-exports-go-to-anti-democratic-regimes/

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Majority Of Canada’s Non-U.S. Military Exports Go To Anti-Democratic Regimes

“The value of non-U.S. exports have really seemed to go to less-than-democratic countries.”

The Maple
Jun 6, 2023 at 7:59pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 6, 2023

Government of Canada: 2022 Exports of Military Goods
https://www.international.gc.ca/transparency-transparence/controls-controles/military-goods-2022-marchandises-militaires.aspx?lang=eng

For the 2022 calendar year, the value of Canadian exports of controlled military goods and technology to non-U.S. destinations amounted to approximately $2.122 billion, compared to $2.731 billion in 2021 and $1.966 billion in 2020.

Saudi Arabia was the largest non-U.S. export destination, receiving approximately $1.151 billion in Canadian military exports (~54% of the total value of non-U.S. military exports).

Report on exports of military goods from Canada - 2022

GAC
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 6, 2023
... The Maple found that nearly 58 per cent of the total value of all Canadian military exports non-U.S. countries went to anti-democratic Gulf monarchies, including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Kuwait. Each of these countries has also been accused by international monitors of committing serious human rights violations
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 6, 2023

Canadian military exports to Israel in 2022 were valued at more than $21 million. According to reports published by multiple international human rights organizations in the past two years, Israel maintains a constitutionally entrenched system of apartheid that strips Palestinians of basic rights.

According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, Israeli forces killed 146 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last year (2022), making it the deadliest year for Palestinians since 2004.

#BTselem

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 6, 2023

The exports to anti-democratic countries run counter to Global Affairs Canada (GAC)'s stated mandate to "advance democracy" around the world. GAC's website claims: Canada is advancing an inclusive approach to democracy.

We want people to participate in decision-making processes and institutions that impact all areas of their lives." Meanwhile, GAC's 2022 military export report states: "The Government of Canada has taken action to strengthen Canada's export controls, ...

https://www.international.gc.ca/transparency-transparence/controls-controles/military-goods-2022-marchandises-militaires.aspx?lang=eng#a1_1

Report on exports of military goods from Canada - 2022

GAC