Profile picture
Anthony Fenton
@anthonyfenton
, 4 tweets, 5 min read Read on Twitter
Despite downgrading its position on Saudi Arabia in September, according to a November posting, Canada's @ExportDevCanada is considering financing a Saudi-Malaysian refinery and petrochemical joint venture
@wicary @paulvieira @rachaiello @CarmichaelKevin
Amazing that this somehow has gone unreported to date: literally 3 days before @cafreeland's initial rift-causing tweet in August, @ExportDevCanada signed off on $100-200 million in financing for Saudi Arabia's 'G3 Canada' (former CWB) projects
@ericatkins2, @AmandaMsteph
It's also striking how the EDC signed a deal to finance Canadian company Cougar Drilling Solutions $5-15 million toward "Support for CDN direct investment abroad" on August 16th, nearly two weeks after the rift w/Saudi began
@ProbeIntl
It turns out that Canada's @ExportDevCanada signed off on at least two more guarantees (<$1 million) for Canadian companies (w/CDN banks @RBC & @TD_Canada as counterparty) selling health/pharma-related services to Saudi Arabia, months *after* the diplomatic rift erupted
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to Anthony Fenton
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

Related threads

Profile picture
Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
#Saudi feminist Loujain al-Hathloul, 29, was detained in May in unprecedented crackdown vs feminists. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aide Saud al-Qahtani, personally oversaw her interrogation, which incl waterboarding & threatened to rape & kill her google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…
Of 18 detained activists, at least eight have been physically abused in custody, according to Saudi advisers, activists &others with knowledge of the prisoners’ treatment. One said security officials electrocuted her hands. “My fingers resembled barbecued meat, swollen and blue”
Glad to see some finally pay attention to misogyny in #Saudi Arabia - I call it gender apartheid. RIP Jamal Khashoggi. It should not be lost on us that it took the murder of a man for some to finally pay attention to women.
Read 15 tweets
Profile picture
Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
#Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman,suspected to have ordered murder of journalist #JamalKashoggi, launched unprecedented crackdown vs women’s rights activists in May. Those activists have been tortured & one has tried suicide 3 times google.com/amp/s/www.wash… h/t @SherifaZuhur
Some of the activists (none of whom have been formally charged or given access to lawyers) have been subjected to psychological or physical abuse while in custody, including electric shocks, sexual harassment, sleep deprivation and beatings. #Saudi
“In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks.” amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #Saudi
Read 21 tweets
Profile picture
EHSANI2
@EHSANI22
#Canada Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen:

“very proud of White Helmet resettlement effort. It was a tough mission, it was a tough ask, but we delivered because we felt that White Helmets had done an exceptional service for humanity and we needed to be there to help them” =>
#Canada Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen:

“White Helmets not only helped rescue people who were caught in the conflict, they also collected evidence of war crimes, and that is why they were threatened directly by the Assad regime “
#Canada Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen:

“Details of exactly how many people are being brought to Canada and where they are being settled are not being shared for security reasons. Those who have arrived so far are quietly making new lives in Canada”
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Dr. Sherifa Zuhur
@SherifaZuhur
#Saudi actors who ordered #Khashoggi's death were aware he wanted his divorce paper, but hadn't anticipated his fiancee's call to Aktay which had some swift consequences. Turkish authorities searched one of the planes leaving with part of the murder team, but found nothing. /1
"Turkish intelligence agency MIT decided to review an audio-visual feed fr inside the consulate"... Grisly details ... suggest that Khashoggi was tortured then killed soon after entering the consulate" /2 cnn.com/2018/10/19/mid…
Had Hatice Cengiz not been there to call Aktay, the Turks wouldn't have suspected as soon as they did, that #Khashoggi had been killed. The info. about that clandestine AV feed was leaked over the week as the Saudis were swift to deny & slow to cooperate with the investigation./3
Read 19 tweets
Profile picture
Kyle Orton
@KyleWOrton
#Saudi Arabia says #Canada's statement on the arrest of activists in the Kingdom is an unacceptable interference in its internal affairs, expels the Canadian ambassador and freezes all future trade. bbc.in/2vs6crl
"In her first public response to Saudi Arabia's actions, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday: 'Let me be very clear ... Canada will always stand up for human rights in Canada and around the world, and women's rights are human rights'." aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/s…
Direct investment was already down in #Saudi Arabia after some of the recent disturbances; this spat with #Canada is unlikely to help. on.wsj.com/2OgITYl
Read 6 tweets
Profile picture
Paul Antonopoulos
@oulosP
BREAKING: The White House has said that US President #Trump is canceling his upcoming South America trip to remain in the US "to oversee the American response to Syria." - @NBCNews
This sounds like the US is planning to strike #Syria and Trump will remain in the US to closely monitor responses by #Russia. This is terrible.
BREAKING - British forces are now mobilizing at their bases in #Cyprus for strikes against #Syria. It appears very likely that the US, France and U.K. will strike Syria in the next 24 hours. This is dreadful.
Read 182 tweets

Trending hashtags

#Canadians #Ottawa #US #Crete #Skripal #UAE #Islam #Saudi #Australia #StandWithSaudiHeroes #UN #Iran #Kuwait #Russia #MohamadBinSalman #Gaddafi #genderaprtheid #YemenCrisis #UK #Yemen #MohammadBinSalman #Libya #Pentagon #EndMaleGuardianship #Canada
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!