Illegal exports inherently have all sorts of impacts, such as the loss of revenue, the avoidance of revenue to the consolidated revenue fund for the Government of Canada and also local taxes or provincial taxes that may or may not have been paid. The same circumstance would exist with all trade fraud and trade-based money laundering. There are a lot of revenue evasion methods that are implicit in those types of activities, so yes, I would confirm that.
On November 28th, 2023. See this statement in context.