I agree with you. I guess my question was really more around whether or not foreign policy interests happen anyway, despite what you're saying is the way it really should be happening.
That leads me to my next question.
There's a briefing memo, dated September 14, 2020, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, about a phone call he was to have with his counterpart in Turkey.
In that memo, there are some placeholder comments about his telling his counterpart that he has good news, namely, that he has approved a number of permits. This memo and call, by the way, took place before the Wescam sensor was found on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh, so the minister would have had no reason to think this conversation was going to be scrutinized in the future.
He said, “Pleased to let you know I have approved a number of permits on an exception basis” as a placeholder comment. Or, another comment might have been, “I am aware of the concerns you've raised with my officials about a number of export permits and I will be considering those very soon, as a priority.... Pleased to note as discussed earlier, Canada has recently made significant changes to Canada's export policy towards Turkey, relaxing restrictions”.
That's the first part of the conversation, harkening back to my first question to you.
The second part of the question—