Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Volkov.
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I want to assure you, following Mr. Chong's questions—you may or may not be aware—that on March 24, our Minister of Foreign Affairs issued another round of sanctions in direct response to Mr. Navalny's arrest and detention. We are constantly reviewing these sanctions.
We have two different regimes for sanctions in Canada. We make sure that they're both judicious and effective, so we won't be putting criminals on sanctions, despite people perhaps saying.... We look for very effective ways. We also do it in tandem with international partners, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, European Union and so on.
This is a constant discussion. If there are suggestions that you have for that, we're always happy to take them, because we will review them. However, we have two pieces of legislation that we have to follow. We're very careful in how we do that. That list on March 24 was done in concert with the Americans.
I want to get out of sanctions for a moment, though, and talk about the effect of the prosecutors' move against the anti-corruption foundation. How will that limit either your work in Russia or outside of Russia, and do you have any suggestions for Canada, with the prosecutors labelling you as an extremist organization for the anti-corruption work you're doing, on how we can be supportive?