Thank you very much.
As before, I am Marie-Josée Langlois, director general in the strategic policy branch at Global Affairs Canada.
In terms of the provisions on ownership and control in the sanctions legislation, those provisions have been there from the beginning. The dealing ban talks about the fact that Canadians cannot deal with property that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by listed entities.
The amendments that are proposed at this time are meant to clarify those provisions. They clarify that the properties of the subsidiaries or related companies are deemed to be the property of the listed entities, and that there are tests or criteria that Canadians can use to assess whether they can deal with an entity or not.
This is similar to what is found in other countries' sanctions legislation, for example, in the U.S. or the U.K.