Foreign Affairs committee  I'll just say quickly, he doesn't believe that western Europe will really apply very tough sanctions against Russia. So he thinks that his market is Europe, but that they are so dependent upon Russia and so cowardly or so lacking in political will that they won't take the steps n

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll just jump in quickly. I think in order for Europe.... Europe has not been joining the global gas revolution. Prices here in North America have gone down substantially. We're benefiting from that. We're switching more to natural gas. We have LNG import and export, as do other

Foreign Affairs committee  I completely agree with David on that. As he said, we worked a little bit on this together. A word that he did not mention that I want to stress is transparency. I don't believe that Ukraine can have a functioning good government without transparency in the energy sector, because

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I'll be very brief. I agree with what David Kramer said, but I would stress one particular point, and that is while western European governments are naturally sensitive to the economic pressures because their democracies and their publics would feel them, Russia is w

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may, I want to give that a very broad context, because I agree with you that it's around the world, and I'm glad you mentioned Syria, because that is fundamentally important as well. What we have done over the last 60 years—Canada, the United States, western Europe—is we ha

Foreign Affairs committee  To be clear, I do draw a very clear distinction between NATO allies and non-allies. For NATO allies, it has to be absolute: we will defend each other. For non-allies, I think it is fair to say that we have an interest in their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and that we

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. I'll get my thoughts here, and David, I'm sure you'll chime in. First off, on your first question, Mr. Anderson, on how far he wants to go, I don't believe that Putin has in mind a particular geography that is his maximum limit or his minimum limit. I think he is playing a

Foreign Affairs committee  I think at this point he doesn't believe the west is going to say no. We've heard various western senior officials or government leaders say that there is no military option, that there's no military solution, so don't talk about military responses to this. As long as Putin hears

Foreign Affairs committee  Go ahead, David.

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may add one thought to what David said, it's that I would include in your outreach Russian ethnic organizations and all political parties, including the Party of Regions, because I think that one of the things we want to foster is Ukraine staying together and being a Ukraine

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Dewar, thank you for the question. I think you raise a fundamentally important question because, like you, I have not heard a clear goal from the United States government, the G-7 governments, or the European Union. What is it that we are trying to achieve? We are, as David

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for inviting me. It's an honour for me to be here. I want to walk through a few framing points about how I think we need to be looking at the situation in Ukraine, and how we need to be looking at the options we as a transatlantic community, as a democratic