OP,
There is nothing to agree upon really. All that the article is on about is politics. All governments and businesses do whatever they can to protect and promote their various positions.
The linkages between BAe, Airbus, Boeing and various markets around the world often have all sorts of little additions and nuances to make certain they make the big deal. All that the UAE wants is the right to move those bezillion Indians that have bought Canadian immigration status back home. If they wish to link it to another deal it would just match what the the nations that claim moral authority do to the rest of the world
As to the Human Rights blah, I can't disagree but some pretty scary things go on closer to home than the UAE. Just take Dubya, Cheney and the Iraq reconstruction contracts as your starting point. It wasn't one Sheikh out with his cattle prod it was a president abusing his power with the puppet meister Cheney pulling the strings and destroying an entire country ......allegedly!