Decision helps clear way for sale of light armored vehicles that has been pending since 2014.
TORONTO — Canada is lifting a moratorium on issuing new arms-export permits to Saudi Arabia and has secured"significant improvements" to a highly secretive $10 billion contract to sell Riyadh light armored vehicles from a Canadian subsidiary of General Dynamics, Canadian officials said Thursday.
In October 2018, after journalist and Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the Canadian government said it was reviewing existing arms sales and would not approve new arms exports to the kingdom in the interim.Before his death, Khashoggi, writing in The Post, had been critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. The CIA concluded that the crown prince had probably ordered the killing, a charge he has denied.
Trudeau has waffled on suspending the contract. He has at times said he was looking for a way out of the deal but cautioned that doing so could be costly because of punitive clauses in the contract. In 2014, Canadian officials said the deal would sustain 3,000 jobs each year, including in London, Ontario, where the vehicles are manufactured.
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