OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Saudi Arabia as he seeks economic partnerships with a strategically important country whose notorious human rights record is only getting worse.

Years after a diplomatic rift over jailed Saudi dissidents, officials would not say if Carney would raise the issue of human rights abuses.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Saudi Arabia as he seeks economic partnerships with a strategically important country whose notorious human rights record is…