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Canadian Trade Relationship
Choose a country in Africa and find a news article that helps us to understand the trading relationship between Canada and your chosen country.

Please answer the following questions about your article:

Write a brief summary of the article. (1 paragraph) (3 marks)

The article Canadian firm shipped armoured cars to lawless Libya despite UN warning depicts how fragile Canada’s trading relationship is with African countries. Many African countries are war torn and have consistent conflict outbreaks occurring. Thus making it very difficult for Canada to import or export goods to a country such as Libya. The article goes in depth about how the streit group, which is a canadian owned company sent over 70 armoured vehicles to Libya, south sudan and other war ridden countries. This went against the existing embargo on arms the united nations had already placed. Organizations such as the Amnesty international Canada are appalled by the streit group’s actions. The secretary general of Amnesty International Canada, Alex Neve is very worried about the repercussions that are a result of sending weapons to a country that has no functioning government, for example the inflammation in libya’s civil war. …show more content…
Global affairs canada has explained that they are not in a position to take any action as the deals were managed and processed through the United Arab Emirates. As a result of the loopholes in canada’s export regime being taken advantage of, Canada hopes to strengthen their regulations by signing the Arms Trade Treaty. This treaty has been put in place to limit the amount of human rights violations caused by
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