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The Canadian government is cancelling 28 military export permits for Turkey, including halting a Burlington-made laser targeting device.In a rare move made by Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau announced the cancellation of the permits after an investigation found the made-in-Canada airstrike-targeting gear was illegally diverted to the war last fall between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The federal government has cancelled 29 arms export licences for Turkey’s high-tech drone systems after a thorough review found “credible evidence” that Canadian technology was diverted to Azerbaijan without Ottawa’s consent and was used in fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh last fall, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said Monday. Canada suspended 25 export permits for military goods…
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iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Apr 8, 2021 5:52pm Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood
Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says his government is pushing back on the Biden administration’s “Buy America” policy, while taking a more cautionary approach on calls to re-open the border.
Appearing before the special committee on the economic relations between Canada and the United States on Thursday, Garneau told MPs in French that “Buy America policies negatively affect our cross-border trade.”
Garneau pointed to the virtual bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden in February when Buy America was one of the first subjects that Trudeau raised, including the “unintended consequences” of the policy. Garneau said that products from Canada sold to the U.S. “have about 21 per cent of American content already in them,” so the America-focussed approach is actually hurting them as w