I'd like to hope Canada expels the Saudi ambassador but I suspect Trudeau is too much of a pushover.
He can't. They've already recalled their ambassador.
Is this the diplomatic equivalent of insulting someone, then putting earphones in and walking away saying 'Na na na, can't hear you!' ?
Trudeau, a pushover? Since when? After all, Harper bent over and took it up the ass from the Bush administration in the Softwood trade dispute, while Trudeau's been pretty tough in response to Trump's tariffs, even going so far as to deliberately target the goods produced by red states.
Saudi Arabia can claim how they are reforming and changing all they want, but this just proves that they are far from being serious
Saudi Arabia will never be considered reformed until they stop publicly beheading people
They, uh, also put out this Tweet earlier
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/223058/b6ded00f-20a0-4c60-87d1-ffb934ff113a/twet.jpg
The implications are rather poor.
The fuck, are they mental?
i realize this is saudi arabia we're talking about here but generally when a country brings in ambassadors they aren't expecting the ambassadors to try and politically influence the entire nation, in germany we had turkey trying to influence germany and people threw a rather large fit over that, I don't think it should be outside of the saudis to be upset at canada trying to do similar thing (even if they are doing good things)
Normally I'd ask what the US was going to do about their "ally" openly threatening 9/11 round 2 on their neighbors to the north, but at this point Canada is being treated worse by the US than it treats the KSA, with the metal tariffs and the White House's desire to spread the trade war into the automotive sector.
I bet the response the right would give is "you deserve it for meddling in their business" without a hint of self-awareness.
The fly in the ointment here though is that it wasn't our ambassador or Embassy who said anything. It was the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and our Foreign Affairs minister. Its not exactly uncommon for statements like this to be made in the face of human rights abuses.
They're apparently hitting up twitter with bots tweeting about abuse of the natives and in support of Quebec separatism. I don't think the Saudis realize that incredibly secular Quebec wants nothing to do with a state-Islamic country.
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