I could maybe give a very factual answer to the question.
I took notes to make sure that I have the paradigm that you have in mind down correctly. Essentially, you're talking about a situation where, although there are gross violations of human rights, it doesn't rise to the threshold of a grave breach of international peace and security. You're talking specifically about freezing assets as opposed to admissibility questions, for example, so situations where an individual may not be admissible to Canada because of the application of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
I'm not aware of an existing legislative instrument that has those specific criteria. As I was saying, with the Special Economic Measures Act, there are a couple of what we call “triggers”, but the trigger for our own autonomous sanctions is the grave breach of international peace and security. That might be in a situation where there are gross violations of international human rights, but that is not the term itself that's used in the act.
The other potential vehicle that exists would be if the Security Council were to make a decision in that context, and then we would have to implement sanctions in that context.