Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used back in October to downplay a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
The federal party leaders failed to scrutinize the $15-billion deal brokered by the former Conservative government last year.
It never became an election issue!
The matter did make an appearance during the French-language leader’s debate when then-Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe pressed Stephen Harper on the logic of having an active mission against the so-called Islamic State as well as a deal to send “billions worth of arms to Saudi Arabia” both on the government’s agenda.
Saudi officials reportedly demanded secrecy around the contract’s details. Not much was revealed by Harper, whose “DNA is all over the contract.”
And the only thing Justin Trudeau has said on the matter is that we are selling them some jeeps!!!
Usually prime ministers are on the job for a few years before they start talking down to Canadians. He's learning so fast.
We should ask for advance debate and discussion “before we embark on any more adventures selling arms to despots,” adding that “unlike Saudi Arabia, Canada is free country.
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