Why the Saudi arms deal is void

Canada’s $15 billion sale of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia is void because of the Middle Eastern country’s crimes against humanity in Yemen, argued UBC’s Michael Byers, in a Globe & Mail op-ed.

“With Saudi Arabia having already been found by a UN panel to be committing actions that amount to such crimes, the presumption must be that it will continue doing so,” wrote Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law.