Please do provide more information feds.
Why are we exporting such items to country's whose human rights are described as dire?
According to international-trade data available on the Industry Canada website, Manitoba exported a total of $3.1 million in "arms and ammunition" to foreign countries last year. That could include anything from flame-throwers to shotgun cartridges to rocket-launchers, and it's double what the province exported in 2004.Recommend this Post
...The data baffled Manitoba peace groups and raised more questions than Ottawa was willing to answer.
To export weapons — even one gun to a private hunter in the United States — requires an export permit from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Getting a permit is a process one vendor called such a "humungous hassle" that virtually no Manitoba retailers bother.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade wouldn't reveal any information about the permit issued to export 110 guns to Saudi Arabia, saying the buyer and seller are confidential.
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