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7. Well I think we can divest of the Saudis in big ways but start small. In canada

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:05 PM

Oct 2018

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It turned out many of our emergency room residents were Saudis because the Saudis paid their salaries so what public healthcare system would not accept free resident doctors or internists? When our global affaires minister criticized Saudi human rights they threatened to pull all their doctors at once. And all their students at Canadian universities. That has gone quiet now so I guess both sides want to tone it down but it points to one thing: we used to use trade in the West as a way to spread human rights and stop wars. Now the Saudis have turned that maxim on its head where trade is leveraged as cover for human rights abuses and to fight against the evolution of democracies.

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Well I think we can divest of the Saudis in big ways but start small. In canada applegrove Oct 2018 #7