Welcome to the new era of overly presumptuous colonial feminism.The smugness of Canadian self righteousness and touchy feely false superiority will now cost Canada billions of dollars in Saudi Trade and will end the monetary flow to many Canadian Universities as Saudi students are ordered home from ALL Canadian Universities, which are the seed beds of Canada's militant feminism movement.
Now the pu$$y whipped nation of Canada will pay , and the vacant stares of Canada's Liberal party now tell the tale. CANADA DOES NOT WANT THESE LIBERALS ANY LONGER! Out damn spots!
Leave the Saudis alone. They are not going to change their ways just because some Canadian jumped up feminist prig decides to run riot with Canada's diplomacy based on so called superior values.
Talk about sophomoric.
Chrystia Freeland needs to resign in ignominy.
Has Canada suggested new personal pronouns to add to the Arabic Language and use in a revised Koran?
Regardless, it tells us who’s pulling the strings in the Western world where too many leaders have said Islam is “a religion of peace” as George W. Bush put it after 9/11.
15 of the 19 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, yes indeed.
Boris Johnson talks the way he does about burkhas for attention but would he do what Canada did. The economic dependence of the UK on Saudi business is that great.
Saudi money and power is important and principles get thrown to the ground for it.
I guess Quebec and BC are going to have to settle for Alberta oil.
Canada’s mouth is writing checks its but can’t cash.
I’m all for Canada dictating some western values to Saudi Arabia. National sovereignty does not mean a right to evade international censure on even the most egregious human rights abuses. It’s high time someone brought KSA down a peg. And the US has plenty of oil in Alaska for Canada, and the pipeline to deliver it, too.
Sometimes Canada forgets how tiny and insignificant it is.
To compare, Canada has ~36M people. It ranks up there with Morroco and Afghanistan.
The city of Sanghai has ~24M people. California has ~37M.
Saudi is a bit smaller at 33M but it has oil (exporting 10M bbd vs. Canada’s 3).
Sorry Canada, no one really cares what you say or how much you want to influence others.
Maybe for human rights sake we should remove Trudeau
It’s one thing to complain about western feminazis and Canadian int’l screw ups, but SA is a vast wasteland of hate, bigotry, state-sanctioned violence and misogyny. What it does to foreign domestic workers should alone make the country a pariah.
And don’t forget the war crime called 9/11.
I must have missed the outrage that occurred after Justin Baby Trudeau stood up for Tommy Robinson.
That said I think Trudeau and his Star Wars cabinet should ratchet up the situation. Expell all Saudi nationals and cancel all their visas. That will show them.
You are way off base. Canada has finally grown a spine and SA has to realize how screwed up their treatment of women is.
Really???? Here I have been waiting year upon years for feminist to deal with the real threat to women....ISLAM!! Islam is slavery for women and Saudi Arabia is abhorrent in its treatment of women....period. Somehow I do not think islamic loving feminist were the problem in Canada.
“Welcome to the new era of overly presumptuous colonial feminism.”
Could the Canadian’s willingness to get involved in another country’s affairs be tied to President Trump’s show of strength thru-out the world?
The Canadians are thinking...”If he can do it, why can’t we?”
I’m not saying that the direction the Canadians are taking is right...just that with President Trump flexing his political muscles, the Canadians are growing some gonads.
“Leave the Saudis alone.”
Sure, if there is reciprocity.
Good for Canada in standing up to SA!
I am not from there, nor an expert on all aspects of their existence, but when they do something right, I stand with them!
I get your point, and you may well be right.
However, the Saudis are NOT our friends, their human rights abuses are legendary, and I - for one - would like to see them return to the 7th century sand pit they are minus our money.
The world best be glad I’m not/wasn’t the POTUS. On September 12, 2001, from the eastern border of Israel to the western border of India; and from the southern border of Russia to the Indian Ocean - all nuked flan and glassy. Arabic/Islam would only be known in Hell.
At least Canada’s new Iranian friends will be happy.
I’m honestly divided on this. About time that some one in the West addresses the real women who suffer - under the Saudi’s Islamist regime. Or just about time someone FINALLY has stood up against the Saudis - the one’s GWB bows to.
But it is laughable for Canada to talk about human rights. Our country runs the Stasi like human rights tribunals that seek to stamp out real human rights like freedom of speech.
Everyone should be condemning Saudi for it’s human rights abuses, terrorist ties and funding. Let’s not forget 9/11.
Christians receive 500 lashes for not denying Jesus Christ in Saudi, and even Trump is remaining silent.
I can’t choose between either of these foul, benighted, retrograde, anti-Christ, bands of monkeys. I guess I’ll just lean back and enjoy the slap fight.