I, like many on this forum, have no axe to grind on either side of this argument but just look on in dismay at the jingoistic rhetoric displayed on both sides.
It would appear that the politics of the problem have been poorly handled on both sides, with the UAE appearing to be the most petulant. However, any moral high ground that Canada as the ‘sophisticated Western democracy’ thought it held now seems to have been blown out of the water.
Were they not concerned about allowing access to a State supported business, or is that not a problem now?