Allison Hanes: Saudi regime shows its true colours in diplomatic row

For the second time in as many months, Canada finds itself the target of bullying on the world stage.
This week, Saudi Arabia took umbrage at a seemingly innocuous tweet by Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, denouncing the detention of women’s rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sada. Echoed by the Twitter account of the Global Affairs Canada department, it was the kind of fare that is usually simply ignored by authoritarian regimes that routinely run roughshod over the ri