Canada Owes No Apology to the Saudis - by Paul Heinbecker (former Cdn. UN Amb.)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-owes-no-apology-t...
"Urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to jump on a plane to Riyadh to apologize for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's tweet on Saudi human rights abuses is bad advice. Suggesting we should seek US President Donald Trump's intervention with the Saudis is no better. And portraying Saudi Arabia as a friend and ally is preposterous. Apologists for the Saudis need to give their heads a shake.
Saudi Arabian authorities continue to subject peaceful dissidents to arbitrary arrests, trials and convictions. Human rights defenders are imprisoned and forced into confessing. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia is conducting a war in Yemen that has become possibly the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
The costs of this grotesquely exaggerated Saudi response, while unwelcome, are affordable for a country with an economy nearly triple the size of Saudi Arabia's. If anything, our reaction to the Saudi outburst should be to build the Energy East pipeline, think twice about sending arms into a conflict zone and make more spots available for Canadians in Canadian medical schools and hospitals..."
Don't agree with Energy East pipeline suggestion.