U.N. ambassador Bob Rae was on CBC radio just now responding to the U.N. report that names Canadian government for fuelling the Saudi war on Yemen. His apologetics were something to behold.

He trotted out an old Liberal line that I thought had gone into disuse - that the weaponized military vehicles Canadian is selling to the Saudis are just “jeeps.” “It’s not what you'd call a weapon,” he said.

That’s some kind of jeep...

He said “the conflict in Yemen is terrible and we're trying to do everything we can to contribute to bringing it to an end.”

Continuing to allow Cdn companies to export military vehicles, rifles, surveillance tech, aircraft & provide pilot training is...a great way to do that.

Rae also dismissed the U.N. Human Rights Council Expert report by slagging it as just the “conclusion of a panel of professors”. Good to know the new ambassador holds the institutions of the UN in such high esteem.

The UN report is itself a very late and overdue acknowledgement of Canadian complicity in the Saudi destruction of Yemen that researchers like @anthonyfenton had long documented and which Canada’s mainstream media ignored. I did an investigation in 2018. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/11/30/news/experts-say-theres-proof-canadian-made-weapons-are-being-used-saudi-war-yemen

Demonstrations online and in 7 cities across Canada tomorrow calling for an end to weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia and to convert the manufacturing of arms to green jobs https://www.twitter.com/LAATCanada/status/1307759929168744454