With regard to the Russian sanctions, the public and the media have noticed discrepancies in the individuals and entities that are listed on either the American list or the Canadian list. For example, there are three notable individuals, Sergey Chemezov, Igor Sechin, and Vladimir Yakunin, who were on the American and Australian lists. Mr. Yakunin, particularly, was on those lists due to his being a close personal and financial associate of Vladimir Putin. Apparently, Mr. Yakunin has since been demoted in the oligarchy hierarchy because his son applied for U.K. citizenship after he established residency there on some of the wealth extracted from Russia.
In the case of Mr. Chemezov, he was the CEO of Rostec, an industrial and military company with which some Canadian aircraft manufacturers may have had an interest. Mr. Sechin was with Rosneft, which apparently owns or did own 30% of an Exxon project in Alberta. Mr. Yakunin was president of the Russian Railways from 2005 to 2015, and he apparently had some dealings with the Railway Association of Canada and SNC-Lavalin.
How do Canadian business considerations figure into whether someone is on the list or not on the list when that person is prominently on the higher levels of the U.S. sanctions list?