This committee has heard, from Professor Charron that some of the unintended consequences of more punishing measures would only harm innocent civilians. The professor was saying that when it comes to Russia, Syria, Zimbabwe, and some other countries, the policy calculations of their leaders there, and the regime, don't take into account Canadian sanctions, whether multilateral or unilateral.
However, we heard from Andrei Sannikov, who was an opposition leader in Belarus, that this is the case, that prison guards, prison administrators, the people who actually carry out the orders of the political leadership, do take it into account. They don't want to see their names popping up on a sanction list.
Does any of that come into the calculation by the department when you make a recommendation to the minister on whether or not to levy the sanctions, that kind of coercion, not so much on the political leadership but on the people carrying out the orders to oppress political leaders, human right activists, and NGOs?