Thank you very much.
The Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act was established in order to respond to a request from a foreign state. It's the foreign state, in particular circumstances under the act, that makes a request to Canada to actually freeze those assets. Those lists expire after a period of time. The reason that the act is set up that way is that it's intended to be a temporary action. It's not meant to be a permanent seizure of the assets, but the idea behind the act is that the foreign state will presumably make a request for mutual legal assistance.
Again, it's the context of the act itself that's important. It was initially established as a response to the events that have been described as the Arab Spring, and it was meant to deal with those situations of turmoil, of governmental change, when there is a concern of assets fleeing the jurisdictions. However, it was never meant to be anything other than a temporary response. It is to support the foreign state. If the foreign state requests that the list be extended, it can be done, but if the foreign state does not wish for the list of names to be extended, then it comes to an end.