VIRTUE-SIGNALLING PM CAN NOT KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT

  The Saudi government was short $1.8 billion in payments to the end of September for light-armoured vehicles assembled at General Dynamics Land Systems Canada (GDLS) in London, according to financial statements from the Canadian Commercial Corp., the federal Crown corporation overseeing the controversial contract.
   Trudeau, whose government inherited the deal from former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, said publicly this week for the first time that the Liberals are trying to find a way to stop the sale involving hundreds of light-armoured military vehicles built by the Canadian division of American defence giant General Dynamics.
   It also makes even less sense that Ottawa should want out of the deal now, added David Perry, a senior analyst with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute think-tank. Not only would the federal government incur billions of dollars in penalties, according to GDLS Canada, but the Saudis aren’t likely to pay the balance owed.