The Canadian Magnitsky act was passed in November 2017 and I thought it would be a huge uphill struggle to get people actually on the list, but about 10 days after it was passed, the Canadian government sanctioned the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky, the people involved in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, some Venezuelan bad guys, and some of the officials from Myanmar who were involved in the Rohingya genocide. I thought this was a really good sign and Canada was off to world leadership in this sphere.
There was one more round of sanctions, and then from 2018 until now, the Canadian Magnitsky act has not been used. I look at this and I'm quite frustrated and disturbed by it, because it's inconsistent with how I viewed Canada when I was going through the advocacy process. It's unhelpful in the world if we're in a situation in which sanctions should be done multilaterally; when the United States, the U.K. and other countries do that, Canada should join.
There are a number of instances when other countries have sanctioned very despicable people doing terrible things and Canada doesn't join its allies. I think it should, and I think this needs to be addressed going forward.