Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, members. I thought at the beginning I'd laid out the relevance about what I was about to say. It has to do with the sanctions that have been imposed on Russia and individual Russians as a result of their illegal invasion and war against Ukraine and the method with which the government is doing that, namely, the Special Economic Measures Act.
The context for that Special Economic Measures Act is important. I'm not sure if there are members around here who know how many times it's actually been used. There are 21 cases currently of existing sanctions that Canada has ongoing, and seven previously that have now ended. One of those seven is the reason that the sanction power exists, so that Parliament is not the individual arbiter every time there is a sanction proposed by the Government of Canada. So the debate and discussion.... It is the Governor in Council who gets to set those.
Part of the study, in the motion, is about whether or not we should be getting on with the important things on the study of Ukraine. We've just heard from witnesses from the Ukraine government. While it was in camera, they spent quite a bit of time...and even the government members were asking questions of those witnesses relative to sanctions.
So in terms of the relevance of what I'm saying, it's related to those things that clearly members have—