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Old Dec 4, 2015 | 1:00 pm
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Originally Posted by Guava
In fact, it wasn't just the European airlines, even as far back as 2008, Dubai - by extension, the UAE fought a very public battle with Canada over EK's landing rights in Canada. The dispute got so bitter that the UAE retaliated by imposing visas on Canadians, opposed Canada's bid on UN Security Council and tried to remove ICAO from Montreal. Canadian government retorted by inferring the UAE as being a terrorist country. All for what? The Canadian government tried to protect Air Canada from EK's competition.
No, it was Qatar and not the UAE who pushed in 2012-13 to have ICAO's headquarters moved to Doha.

As for the Canadian government inferring that the UAE is a terrorist country, you should get your facts straight and read the last sentence of the second paragraph:

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca....aspx?lang=eng
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