“The Geneva Convention certainly wasn’t intended to bring forward a cause from someone who is not himself in an armed conflict,” Mr. Veilleux said.
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Using that argument, it would appear the Nuremburg trials were of questionable legality, since the prosecutors were not, themselves, the victims of atrocities committed by the Nazis.

As for the claim that “there is no evidence Saudi Arabia has ever used Canadian light-armoured vehicles against civilians,” shouldn’t the fact that the Saudi regime uses its military to persecute and oppress its own people be reason enough not to sell them the means to do it more effectively?