First of all, as I said in my recommendations, I think we need to understand that we have an obligation to do more than just speak words about this topic. In fact, I wish we even spoke words about it. Really, I've seen nothing coming out of the ministry of foreign affairs or from the Prime Minister equal to the level of statements coming out, just to give one example, of the United States and the Biden administration. At the highest levels, the White House and the state and justice departments have all made very powerful statements. They have held inquiries and have started to penalize firms, recognizing the very serious gravity worldwide of this problem that's both a human rights issue and a national security issue.
I could reiterate my recommendations, but I think we need to begin with the fact that we have no export controls for Canadian firms that sell surveillance technologies abroad. That needs to change. We need to be more transparent about from whom we are procuring this technology. As you heard yesterday, the Minister of Public Safety wouldn't even acknowledge who they're buying this from. There's no operational security reason why we shouldn't do that, and there are many good reasons why we should. That's because our procurement is a lever on the industry. If we're going to spend millions of dollars buying this technology, which is very expensive, by the way, we can impose conditions on the firms to say that we're not going to buy from firms that have been widely associated with gross human rights violations both abroad and here in Canada unless they comply with certain standards.