Canada exported $14.6 million worth of military goods to Israel last year, according to a report published today by Global Affairs Canada.
A total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell goods to Israel in 2025, the report says.
The military goods were shipped despite the Liberal government stating that it paused approvals of some new military export permits on January 8, 2024 and suspending dozens of existing permits for goods that it believed could be used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Under the Export and Import Permits Act, the Minister of Foreign Affairs is legally obliged not to authorize military export permits if there is a substantial risk the goods could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law.
The report states that two new military export permits to Israel were issued in 2025.
The Maple revealed last year that these permits were for parts related to Israel’s Iron Dome missile system, which allows Israel to inflict massive civilian casualties at a scale that dwarfs its own losses. The two permits were valued at $37.2 million.
The report states that Israel remains on Canada’s Automatic Firearms Country Control List, which allows exporters to sell such weapons and components to the listed countries.
$7.2 million of the exported goods to Israel last year fell under an export category that covers “Electronic equipment, ‘spacecraft’ and components, not specified elsewhere on the Munitions List.”
$4.3 million of the exported goods fell under an export category that covers “Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and related equipment and accessories, and specially designed components therefor.”
The total value of exported goods to Israel last year represents a slight decrease from 2024, when $18.9 million worth of goods were shipped.
Alex Cosh
The largest non-U.S. destination of Canadian military goods in 2025 was Saudi Arabia, where $404 million worth of goods were sold.
Canada also shipped $10.4 million of military goods to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E), which is accused of complicity in genocide in Sudan.
The report’s data does not include the vast majority of Canadian-made military goods that are shipped to Israel via the United States, which are not tracked or regulated by the federal government.
Last year, a report published by the Arms Embargo Now coalition identified hundreds of shipments of Canadian-made F-35 fighter jet components, other aircraft parts, and explosives and flammable materials to U.S. facilities that supply the Israeli military.
The report also highlighted 433 shipments of Polish-made TNT routed through the Port Saguenay, Quebec to U.S. army ammunition plants that make bombs used by Israel in Gaza.
The same coalition published another report last year that used shipping records and Israeli Tax Authority data to identify hundreds of direct shipments to Israel, including some that were categorized by the Israeli government as parts for weapons and ammunition.
The Liberal government voted down an NDP-sponsored motion last year calling on the government to close the U.S. export loophole on the basis that doing so might incur the wrath of the U.S. government and harm Canada economically.
GAC’s latest export report notes that two legal actions regarding Canada’s authorizations of military exports to Israel were still underway as of December 31, 2025.
