Yes.
I have just a couple of points on that. One is Canada has a made-in-Canada policy in many of these cases and when you compare just the sanctions policy with respect to Russia, Iran, Cuba, Burma, and these other countries, they're not identical. A Canadian company has to pay attention to these made-in-Canada policies, as they do these sanctions policies from other countries.
Canadian companies in the past have often made the assumption that the U.S. is the high-water mark, so they'll just follow U.S. sanctions. They're the most aggressive, so that's got to be the safe process to follow. Frankly, that's gotten a lot of Canadian companies in trouble when they realize there are some elements of these sanctions that are more aggressive in Canada than in the United States.
The second comment I would make on that is, in the administration of these sanctions, there are significant differences and I understand the point our speaker from Geneva is making. There are complaints from companies around the world about dealing with these sanctions measures, and I get that, but I think we are unique here in Canada. To give you some anecdotal evidence on this, I deal in commercial transactions that involve trying to determine the application of Canadian sanctions. I work with sanctions counsel in the United States, Australia, and Europe, and uniformly we have situations where the Americans and the Europeans are able to get guidance on these issues and they're stunned that here in Canada we're unable to pick up the phone and at least call someone in Global Affairs and ask them how they might interpret something. That's unheard of here in Canada. While they're able to do that to some extent in the United States and the European Union, in the United States OFAC—although it's often the subject of complaints—publishes FAQs on these issues. They publish opinions on these issues. There are phone numbers you can call to speak to them about these issues. We don't have that here in Canada right now, unfortunately.