Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia have cancelled over $4.5 million worth of contracts with Canada in protest against plans to move the Canadian Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the government disclosed today. The Minster of State for International Trade, Michael Wilson, said the contracts represented a $4.2 million sale of timber to Iraq, $60,000 worth of poultry products to Libya, and $350,000 due the Canadian World University Service from Saudi Arabia for services rendered to visiting Saudi students.
The Embassy shift, promised by Prime Minister Joe Clark during his election campaign, has been postponed pending the recommendations of Robert Stanfield who Clark sent on a fact-finding mission to the Middle East.
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