In what appeared to be a further sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries, a verified Twitter account, which is reportedly linked to Saudi authorities, shared an image of a plane flying towards Toronto's famed CN Tower.

The image was overlaid with text, including a quote which read "he who with what doesn't concern him finds what doesn't please him".

After we sold them all of that military equipment to crush Yemen...?

Considering Saudi involvement in 9/11, and the story that there was some Saudi govt involvement in it, that image of a plane flying into a tower from a govt website is a bit OTT.

Scumbags the whole lot of them.

Good for Canada.

And scumbags too the Western countries that enable them to do what they do. Including Canada.

The western relationship with the Saudi's always stuns me. The Saudi's basically are responsibly for funding most major terrorist groups that attack the wets or force western intervention and the spread of a sychotic version of Islam that is sending the world back centuries but nobody tells them to fcuk off, instread we pay them billions in oil money to fund this evil sh!t and go and freeze out every other country we could buy oil from. Not justifying Russia, Iran and the like but they seem like much lesser evils to me.

Saudi has oil and the west will milk them dry and then ditch them like a cum rag when they run out. Good tactic. Use their shit first, leave ours as reserves.

Will they run out any time soon? Surely there are better and safer oil producing countries.

Since 1982, the Saudis have withheld their well data and any detailed data on their reserves, giving outside experts no way to verify Saudi claims regarding the overall size of their reserves and output. This has caused some to question the current state of their oil fields. In a 2004 study, Matthew Simmons analyzed 200 technical papers on Saudi reserves by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and concluded that Saudi Arabia's oil production faced near term decline, and that it would not be able to consistently produce more than 2004 levels, when production of crude oil and lease condensate averaged 9.10 million barrels per day. Simmons also argued that the Saudis may have irretrievably damaged their large oil fields by over-pumping salt water into the fields in an effort to maintain the fields' pressure and boost short-term oil extraction. He concluded (in 2004): "In 2-3 years we will have conclusive evidence that Saudi oil is peaking,"[14] Since his prediction, Saudi crude oil production has varied from as low as 8.25 million barrels per day (average for 2009) up to 9.83 million barrels per day (average for 2012). Overall, in the nine years since his 2004 prediction (2005-2013), Saudi crude oil and lease condensate production has averaged 9.20 million barrels per day, just slightly higher than 2004 levels.[15]

Diplomatic cables leaked during the United States diplomatic cables leak in 2011 revealed that Sadad Ibrahim Al Husseini, former vice president of Saudi Arabia's oil monopoly Saudi Aramco, warned the US that the oil reserves in Saudi Arabia might in fact be 40% (300 billion barrels) lower than claim

Will they run out any time soon? Surely there are better and safer oil producing countries.

. Regime change and turn on the spigots!

After we sold them all of that military equipment to crush Yemen...?

Quote from Dick Cheney, circa 2002?

" .. just secure he maintenance and service contracts before we start...."

Good riddance....

Sponging spots in post grad programs... taking spots away from our quality students... due to $$$$$ they have to pay.... Then off then go afterward back to use their their partly paid CDN taxpayer paid education elsewhere........


Canada is a better place today....


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The western relationship with the Saudi's always stuns me. The Saudi's basically are responsibly for funding most major terrorist groups that attack the wets or force western intervention and the spread of a sychotic version of Islam that is sending the world back centuries but nobody tells them to fcuk off, instread we pay them billions in oil money to fund this evil sh!t and go and freeze out every other country we could buy oil from. Not justifying Russia, Iran and the like but they seem like much lesser evils to me.

The western relationship with the Saudi's always stuns me. The Saudi's basically are responsibly for funding most major terrorist groups that attack the wets or force western intervention and the spread of a sychotic version of Islam that is sending the world back centuries but nobody tells them to fcuk off, instread we pay them billions in oil money to fund this evil sh!t and go and freeze out every other country we could buy oil from. Not justifying Russia, Iran and the like but they seem like much lesser evils to me.

Yeah. Meanwhile, the US has said it'll stay neutral.

I totally agree.

I am pro trade pro arms industry, but honestly think it would have been better for everyone to get UN to invade saudi and divi up the country and its oil . The allies should have done this straight after ww2 instead of being obsessed about USSR.


Selling weapons to countries that fund terrorism in your own country, blowing up Kids at pop concerts etc, is mental - and many countries are to blame.

Will they run out any time soon? Surely there are better and safer oil producing countries.

Good on Canada. Saudi have an abysmal record on human, and particularly women's, rights. Don't be cowed by the bullying of a regional power trying desperately to get a win in amongst a multitude of foreign policy failures.

Is the Saudi military not very well equipped in terms of hardware from the West?
Doesn't matter, mind you. It's tied up bombing the shit out of Yemen.

They define the phrase: "All the gear but no idea".

Aside from the oil thing - not a problem for Canada - what the fúck can the slimy Saudi greaseballs threaten the Canadians with? The might of the Saudi military?

It is to laugh.

I've heard as much. It's why I made sure to include reference to the hardware, specifically.

The Don might lend the some USA pilots ....

Well I would imagine that turning the taps on will have a negative affect on Canadian oil producers, I understand it's more expensive to produce from oil sands and shale which is where the majority of Canadian oil comes from. And oil is a industry which knows how to throw it's weight around. I would also imagine that Canadian arms sales will be hit, a not insignificant amount. Then there's the loss of income from Saudi students, the stopping of intelligence sharing which may prevent terrorist attacks and the well being of Canadian troops abroad (although that's unlikely).

Well, that's something, I suppose.

I honestly would expect Trump to come out in support of the Saudis.