That claim was made in light of the nearly 1,000 pages of documents that have been published via this committee. With regard to the exemptions to the original suspension of October 2019, from those documents we can see that the export permits, in particular for the Wescam sensors but also for other Canadian weapons, were almost universally granted. I believe it was exception D that said that if there were going to be negative blowback bilaterally, then this should go forward. From our perspective, that's clouding the judgment of officials at Global Affairs Canada.
On April 27th, 2021. See this statement in context.