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Targeting Libya

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How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens

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In Targeting Libya, investigative journalist Owen Schalk examines how Canadian business and government actors influenced Libya’s fate, from the rise and fall of Muammar Qadhafi to the country’s ongoing instability in the present day. Schalk details the beginnings of Canadian business and government dealings in Libya, curiously timed visits by federal cabinet ministers, Canadian military participation in the 2011 NATO-led bombing of the country, CSIS collaboration in interrogation techniques involving torture, the SNC-Lavalin corruption scandal that plagued the Trudeau government, the criminal conviction of senior executives for bribery in the Canadian courts, and more.

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Owen Schalk

Owen Schalk is an independent researcher and writer. He is the author of Canada in Afghanistan: A story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure, 2003–2023, and the coauthor of Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy with Yves Engler.

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Foreword This chapter argues that Canada’s little analyzed role in the 20011 NATO-led war on Libya reveals a foreign policy that is driven by corporate interests and geopolitical advantage,despite … View	Owen Schalk	3	2025	$0.30
Libya This chapter looks at the close ties that developed between Canada and SNC Lavalin and the Qadaffi regime in the early 2000s and the dramatic shift in this relationship only a few years later, … View	Owen Schalk	6	2025	$0.60
Libya from the Ottomans to King Idris This chapter traces Libya’s history over centuries of foreign domination and the fight among Western countries over the control of its oil wealth and the rise of Muammar Qadaffi, who, … View	Owen Schalk	8	2025	$0.80
Canada's "international responsibility" The chapter traces how Canadian capital and engineering firms like SNC and Lavalin became tools of Ottawa’s anti-communist foreign policy during the Cold War, while Western powers tightened … View	Owen Schalk	12	2025	$1.20
The Just Society and the Jamahiriya This chapter explains how during the late 1960s Pierre Trudeau continued Canada’s longstanding pattern of backing corporate expansion and Cold War anti-communism abroad. In contrast, … View	Owen Schalk	23	2025	$2.30
The Mad Dog This chapter looks at Qadhafi’s radical reform program of the 1980s, which clashed violently with the US-led world order. As Libya used oil, arms, and support for liberation movements to … View	Owen Schalk	15	2025	$1.50
Lockerbie This chapter reviews the facts surrounding the Lockerbie tragedy and how although early evidence pointed to Iran as responsible for the downing of the airplane, the West used Lockerbie to justify … View	Owen Schalk	14	2025	$1.40
Globalization and the end of an alternative This chapter explores the neoliberal agenda of the 1990s and how Canadian military interests aligned with those of the US around the globe while SNC-Lavalin grew in influence. In Libya there were … View	Owen Schalk	14	2025	$1.40
"No project has ever had budgets like this" This chapter outlnes how Libya moved from sanctions toward rapprochement with the West, while SNC-Lavalin and the Canadian state worked in tandem to win lucrative contracts. Qadhafi’s shift … View	Owen Schalk	9	2025	$0.90
The Canada-Libya thaw In this chapter Canadian prime minister Paul Martin’s 2004 tent meeting with Qadhafi symbolized how Canadian diplomacy, corporate interests (especially SNC-Lavalin and oil firms), and … View	Owen Schalk	6	2025	$0.60
"The hottest of hot spots" This chapter looks at the period of the late 2000s, when Libya’s uneasy opening to foreign investment exacerbated internal political battles while SNC-Lavalin courted the Qadaffi sons with … View	Owen Schalk	8	2025	$0.80
The nationalization threat In this chapter, SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt ties to the Qadhafi family deepened just as Libya’s relations with Western oil companies and governments took a turn for the worse. In Libya … View	Owen Schalk	9	2025	$0.90
"He will not last long" In this chapter Arab Spring protests in Libya, fuelled by inequality, corruption, and the Abu Salim massacre, rapidly turned into an armed civil war that Western governments both culitivated and … View	Owen Schalk	13	2025	$1.30
Canada wages war on Libya This chapter details how as NATO’s war escalated, SNC-Lavalin scrambled to rescue its Libya deals while Canada became a leading participant in a bombing campaign that sidelined African … View	Owen Schalk	31	2025	$3.10
Oil, militias, and the second civil war This chapter outlines how, after helping destroy Qadhafi’s Libya, Canada turned a blind eye to its own illegal war while prosecuting SNC-Lavalin for corruption, backing a new Libyan regime … View	Owen Schalk	8	2025	$0.80
The multipolar world This chapter examines Libya’s collapse into civil war and jihadist takeover while the US shifted its focus to containing a rising China and Russia, whose growing independence signaled a new … View	Owen Schalk	4	2025	$0.40
The SNC-Lavalin affair This chapter details how SNC-Lavalin evaded serious punishment for its Libyan bribery scandal through political lobbying and a plea deal in Canada, while Libya now lay in ruins. View	Owen Schalk	11	2025	$1.10
Libyan tragedy, Canadian guilt This chapter argues that NATO’s 2011 war on Libya turned a relatively stable, egalitarian state into a deeply fragmented and impoverished country, while Canadian corporations like … View	Owen Schalk	12	2025	$1.20

Targeting Libya

How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens

Contributors

Owen Schalk

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