This is a vintage case of self-defeating, incandescent Canadian sanctimony.
First is the demand that the manufacture and sale to Saudi Arabia of armoured personnel carriers for $15 billion by a subsidiary of American armaments giant General Dynamics in London, Ont., be stopped because of the turpitude of the Saudi regime.
Three horrible notions of government intervention have been floating around in Canada recently, and they should be vaporized before they settle in the nostrils of the federal government, historically susceptible as federal Liberals have sometimes been to nasty outbreaks of that contagion.