In my industry association head, I would simply say that the scope and the breadth to which we apply instruments of foreign policy for gender-based issues are the responsibility of the elected officials of the Government of Canada. If you are asking me as a woman—and perhaps that is why you're asking me—again, I think that using export controls as a tool of foreign policy, and in this particular instance to reduce gender-based violence, particularly against women and girls, as a Canadian, I place a high value on that.
On November 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.