{"id":1480,"date":"2021-03-03T13:57:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2021-03-05T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:15:14","slug":"canada-must-stop-arming-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Canada Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network has just publicly\nnamed 28 companies across Canada involved in the arms trade to Saudi Arabia.\nIt&#8217;s loathsome for Canadian companies to be profiting from arming the\ncombatants in the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in Yemen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Network delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/peaceandjusticenetwork.ca\/stoparmingsaudi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">this letter<\/a> signed by 68 groups, representing 1mil people, to Justin Trudeau\u2019s office on May 1. Conscience Canada is a proud signatory of this letter. We must end Canada\u2019s complicity in the war on Yemen. Canada must stop arms shipments to Saudi Arabia immediately and expand humanitarian aid to Yemen\u2019s people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Feb. 4 Biden announced the US would freeze all\nUS arms sales to Saudi Arabia and end US support for the Saudi-led war on\nYemen. Germany &amp; Italy have halted arms trade to SA too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JustinTrudeau it is your turn. For over 2 years\nyou&#8217;ve received multiple letters in which dozens of groups representing\nmillions who have repeatedly demanded Canada stop selling arms to the Saudis.\nWe&#8217;ve petitioned, presented, protested, blocked arms. We&#8217;ve gotten NO ANSWER.\nTell us\u2014who do you answer to, who do you serve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time on Monday that activists delivered\nthis letter to Trudeau demanding Canada stop the arms, Minister Karina Gould said\n\u201cWe must do everything possible\u201d to help Yemen while announcing $69.9mil in\naid. That is a <strong>drop in the bucket<\/strong>\ncompared to the <strong>billions<\/strong> in arms we\nsell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada is a leading weapons supplier to Saudi\nArabia. Canada is the second-largest arms supplier to the entire Middle East.\nCanadian companies are currently profiting from arming the worst humanitarian\ncrisis on the planet in Yemen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This must STOP!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/stop-selling-war-machines-1024x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/stop-selling-war-machines-1024x229.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/stop-selling-war-machines-150x33.jpg 150w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/stop-selling-war-machines-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/stop-selling-war-machines-768x171.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em> CWPJN protest banner outside PM&#8217;s office as letter is delivered. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network has just publicly named 28 companies across Canada involved in the arms trade to Saudi Arabia. It&#8217;s loathsome for Canadian companies to be profiting from arming the combatants in the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in Yemen. The Network delivered this letter signed by 68 groups, representing 1mil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}