So since the tiff between your government and the kingdom broke out this week over Canada’s calls for the release of arrested Saudi rights activists, I have been watching how the Saudi news media has been talking about you.

It has not been pretty.

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“In Canada, women have the highest rates of persecution,” an analyst said on a Saudi television station, without explaining how such statistics are calculated.

Another channel ran a montage about “the worst Canadian prisons,” saying that they had poor food and health services and that justice took so long that 75 percent of prisoners died before their trials between 2015 and 2017.

Another commentator was worried about Indigenous Canadians.

“They are poor, they are killed, they are displaced,” he said. “Canada is a racist country.”