In this exploratory episode of History Bites, Lt. Col. John McCrae experts Bev Dietrich and Linda Granfield chat about recent discoveries in their ongoing research into his life and times.
For more than three decades, successive Canadian governments have tied themselves in knots to justify the sale of Canadian-produced weapons to Saudi Arabia. Yet the Saudi sales are only the latest chapter in a history of arms sales to conflict regions which extends back to the Second World War, and includes customers from all over the world.