1/ Thread. Digging into the dispute between #SaudiArabia and #Canada
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2/ The #Illuminati controlled mass media would have you believe this "all started with one tweet".
The narrative they are pushing: Canada is standing firm in its principles of gender equality and is sticking up to the big bad Saudi Arabia.
3/ Trudeau's foreign policy expert defenitely knows a thing or two about #SaudiArabia
middleeasteye.net/in-depth/featu…
4/ He's the guy who got Trudeau to wear some Muslim Hipster Socks.
macleans.ca/news/canada/ju…
5/ The point is that Canada viewed its relationship with Saudi Arabia as an important one, so they placed a Saudi-connected guy into foreign trade related role.
6/ Going back to 2015, the government that came before Trudeau's - Harper - had negotiated a trade deal with Saudi Arabia to supply them with 1,000 armored vehicles over 14 years.
theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/…
7/ In 2015, the Canadian government's rationale was that even though Saudi Arabia might not win any feel good points as far as human rights were concerned, they were seen as being in opposition to the Islamic State, so Canada made an exception.
8/ In fact, this arms deal was the biggest arms export deal in Canadian history, and so it was probably "too good to pass up".
cbc.ca/news/politics/…
9/ It’s one of the great contradictions of Canada: selling armoured personnell carriers, which will be used to suppress minority populations, while at the same time scolding Saudi Arabia on human rights issues.
10/ It’s a contradiction that might reframe Justin Trudeau’s “Sunny Ways” as “Cheerful Hypocrisy”, as potrayed in Snog’s music video by the same name.
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