Saudi Arabia opens its economy and society. Why was Canadian so slow to capitalize this?

There are many ways to measure how much Saudi Arabia has changed in recent years. Fun on Montreal businessman, Singer Richler is one of them on an ancient historical site.

Richler is an observer Jew, who is bearded and wearing a yarmulke beneath the ball cap.

Distiyahah, the former capital of the country, only 63 billion US dollars were on a visit outside Riyadh, a US restoration project.

If it simply causes any friction in the preservative to the conservative Islamic kingdom, Richler wants to intervene quickly with many visitors, Richler says the “Excellent” cover.

However, it is great and great that he says he is greeted with grace along the Saudi capital.

“I thought it would be more enemy,” he said. “Everyone was very quiet and very comfortable and it was a pleasure to do things.”

Richler – The famous Canadian writer Mordecai and his son of journalist Nuha is what he calls for a distant cousin – “Reverse logistics”. That is, his company uses people to make money to return to stores that cannot be reserved.

“I try to do something in Saudi. This is a future and future country,” he said.

“When you come here, you are pleasantly surprised. I believe that when the enterprises bring together people together. It is a way to the future.”

Frozen relationships

However, these other Canadians – always looked at the world’s second largest oil producer, including high-level members of the current liberal government.

In 2018, Canada’s Global Affairs Department was taken into custody by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, then sent a number tweets He calls on Saudi Arabia to criticize the human rights record and release an active activist in connection with Canada.

The angry Saudi government accused Canada in their internal affairs. The Canadian ambassador expelled the Ambassador to Riyadh and took an unusual step of trade relations between the two countries and ordered thousands of Saudi universities returning home in Canada.

Then the same year, Canada Apply sanctions Saudi leader Prince Mohammed Bin Salma is a prominent critic critic Camal Khashoggi related to the murder and division of 17 Saudi. Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Relations between the two countries, trade, cultural and political contacts were a loss of deep freezing such as deep freezing.

Things just went on Five years later, in 2023, both parties agreed to finally appoint new ambassadors and continue their full contacts.

Canadian Mining Jeffrey Steiner, who led the Canadian Saudi Business Council, said he visited Saudi 28 times in a four-year period, he said he was trying to help partially mend fences.

“We tried really behind the scenes and encouraged both sides to see each other had to work. It took several years, but the situation is very good,” he said.

“We are playing, but we are moving forward very quickly.”

In a statement to CBC News, global relationships admitted to Canada.

“Canada enjoys increasingly healthy and productive bilateral relations with Saudi Arabia,” he said.

He noted that Saudi Arabia was sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s human rights record and is “satisfied” in Canada.

“Canadian Saudi Arabia’s meeting also welcomes the progress brought with the growing participation of 2030, especially in women and society and the economy.”

The Vision 2030 is very effort to change all sides of Saudi society and the economy to help the Saudi society and its economy and its economy.

The change on the social side was dramatic.

Most of the severe restrictions on women have been removed and now more than 36 percent of the workforce are women with women with women, public corporations and women with best jobs in the private sector.

After the restoration of political relations between February 2024 and 2025 Trade between the two nations has increased 82 percent.

Canada’s largest exports to Saudi Arabia, worth $ 1.1 billion in 2023, armored vehicles, the bulk of them Lav Armored Machines General Dynamics are produced in land systems, Canada, London, Ont.

Saudi’s largest exports to Canada remains – About $ 1.5 billion in 2023, most of the Saint John, NB was cleaned in the Giant IVR processing plant

However, Canadian supporters represent a part possible to trade the existing two-way trade.

Mining will be a “big area”, to develop, Steiner says in a network event in Riyadh.

He says Canadian companies have increased opportunities for firms working in health, dogs and artificial intelligence.

During his last visit to Donald Trump, the crown princess in his public stressed that the expansion of the Kingdom foreign investment gate.

“We hope for investment opportunities worth $ 600 billion today. In recent months, we will work in the second stage and work in the second stage to raise $ 1 trillion,” he said.

There is no existence?

However, the former ambassador of Canada in the region, Canada has not moved faster and more strategic, he said he did not act more to prevent the risk of eliminating opportunities in the region.

“You see the reconstruction of the world. And this place and the region is really important,” he said.

“So you see everyone here comes here … and it’s more and more and more and more, it belongs to Canada.”

During the visit of Trump, the United States, not only the most of the large wardrobe ministers, but also the occupations of many of the world’s largest corporations.

Trump, Saudi was a similar trip on the first official visit of the first presidential term in 2017.

On the contrary, the last time the Canadian Prime Minister became Jean Chrétien in the 2000s of Saudi Arabia in 2000.

“I think for years and years, Canada has not been at a political level in this region,” he said.

“The country’s leadership should show what diplomats and businessmen are trying to do.”

“Canadians are missing and I think it should change if we want to diversify.”

Although there are still human rights issues, a few years ago the country is unrecognizable, the Canadian political scientist Janice Stein, which is in a riyadh, at the same time as our visit to CBC.

“Canadians need to look at trend lines in Saudi Arabia, improved and deteriorating,” he said.

“If there is steady evidence, women … have the importance of this article, which has greater opportunities than five years ago.”

Saudi Arabia said he believed that a number of main indicators were moving towards the direction.

“To me, this is empty half of the glass.”