Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I thank Mr. Housefather for his always valuable work.
I do have a question for the officials. I certainly understand the intent of the amendment and I support the intent. I'm wondering to what extent this may have unintended consequences.
I'll give you the specific example of occupied Ukraine. We have entities that are sanctioned by Canada in areas of Ukraine that are currently occupied by the Russian invasion, so I'm wondering to what extent it is possible that Ukrainian media might be caught in an unintended way by this.
My second question is around non-state media. If sanctions are applied to a state.... Paragraph (b) talks about news business having its “headquarters in a foreign state”. To what extent might that have an impact?
I'm thinking about, for example, media that is active journalism but headquartered in a state that is sanctioned—even though the media's independent. Hong Kong comes to mind, though of course the independent media has now been suppressed. To what extent might it have an impact on that media as well?
Again, I absolutely support the intent of this amendment. I just want to make sure there are no unintended consequences. If there are, we can perhaps have a subamendment that would address that.