Well, $90,000 isn't the maximum amount. The SEMA and the UN acts contain differing amounts. I believe that under the UN act, it is $100,000 and 10 years of jail time if it's an indictable offence. Of course, Canadian judges do have discretion in taking into consideration all of the context. I haven't spoken to the company in question directly, but it sounds, according to what's been reported in the news, as though they realized that, oops, they had contravened the acts, and they came forward. I'm guessing that's why the judge took that into consideration when coming up with the amount assessed for them.
I would suggest that the committee might want to just take a good and a state that is subject to sanctions and try to drill down and figure out all of the different pieces of regulation someone has to go through, and try to get the definitions to try to figure out what it is that they can and cannot buy from or sell to these countries. It's getting to the point where it's just easier to say, “Well, I'm not going to do it”, but then that impacts Canadian companies and Canadian jobs, and that was never the intent, in the first place, of the Governor in Council deciding that those measures should be in place.
I would always caution against the unintended consequences of trying to go after all of the companies to maximum effect, because often the dribble-down effect hurts innocent Canadians.