New COAT Research
Canada's Military Exports to
the
Middle East and
North Africa
Inspired by popular revolutions and protests throughout the Middle East and North Africa, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) has amassed a wealth of information on Canadian military exports to the region. Using data culled from various government and industry sources, COAT has produced dozens of data tables exposing Canadian arms exports to the region.
For decades, Canadian governments --
Conservative and Liberal alike, while preaching peace and human
rights -- have facilitated the steady flow of arms, ammunition, tear gas,
battle vehicles, military explosives, and much much more, to numerous
repressive, undemocratic governments in the Middle East, North Africa and
elsewhere. Canada is thus deeply complicit in aiding and abetting
many U.S.-backed regimes that must rely on brute force to retain power.
Canadian
Military Industries
Targetting the
Middle East and North Africa
This database provides information on more than 200 Canadian military
industries that report having "export experience" to governments in
the region (plus those "actively pursuing" such exports).
Click each company name to find out details about the company, such as the military products
that they manufacture.
(Sources: A wide variety of sources were used to create this database,
such as Industry Canada, company websites, and the Canadian Association of
Defence and Security Industries.)
Canadian
Military Exports to the Middle East and North
Africa
The tables
in this series reveal about $1.99 Billion in Canadian military exports to
16 countries in
the region between 1990 and 2006.
NEW DATA
from DFAIT's latest
report on exports for
2007-2009 --
tabled in Parliament, on
Friday
afternoon, March 11, 2011 --
has been entered into these tables.
(Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade)
(The export data is juxtaposed with web resources from numerous sources
that detail human rights and labour rights violations in each country.)
Canadian
Small Arms Exports to the Middle East and
North Africa
This set of tables provides data on the
export of Canadian small arms, light weapons and ammunition to
nineteen countries in the region between 1980 and 2009.
(Source: Customs information compiled by the UN.)
(The export data is juxtaposed with web resources from numerous sources
that detail human rights and labour rights violations in each country.)
Canadian
Munitions Firms Exporting
to the Middle East
and North Africa
This table provides information concerning about twenty Canadian weapons and ammunition makers
and identifies their export targets in the region.
Data shown here includes the lists of countries that each company says it
has exported to, as well as the countries to which they say they are
"actively pursuing" such exports.
(Source: Industry Canada)
Canadian Exports of Arms,
Ammunition and parts
to the Middle East and North
Africa
This set of information tables provides detailed
customs data revealing that Canadian weapons
and ammunition -- valued at more
than $45
million -- were exported to nineteen countries in
the region,
between 1991 and 2010.
(Source: Statistics Canada, using customs data
from the Canada Border
Services Agency)
Canadian Exports of Armoured Fighting Vehicles
to the Middle East
and North Africa
This
table shows the exports of Canadian military vehicles worth almost $1.9
Billion to eleven countries in the region between 1990 and 2010.
Most of the exports were to Saudi Arabia, where all protests have now been
banned, although there were sizable exports, worth about $40 million, to
Egypt, Iraq and the UAE. (Source: Statistics Canada, using customs
data from the Canada Border Services Agency)
(This photo shows some of the many Canadian military
vehicles -- made by General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, in London, ON --
that are used in Saudi Arabia. Photo: Saudi National Guard website.)
Canadian Exports of Explosives,
Fuses & Detonators
to the Middle East
and North Africa
This table shows Canadian exports of explosives, fuses and
detonators -- valued at about $14 million -- to twelve countries in the
region between 1990 and 2010.
(Source: Statistics Canada, using customs data from the Canada Border
Services Agency.)