Thank you for the question.
I believe there's always a risk of foreign officials wanting to move their assets, but we do know right now that foreign officials from China and Hong Kong store their assets overseas because of the likelihood that Xi Jinping will do another corruption crackdown. Many officials in Hong Kong in particular have foreign assets that are usually under the name of a family member so that they won't be traced when there is a corruption crackdown. It is for historical reasons that they do this, because of Hong Kong's previous colonial history.
That said, it is important that we do publish the list of the names of individuals we should sanction in Canada, because it is the leverage that Canada has over human rights violators in Hong Kong and China. Like Russian oligarchs, they like to store their wealth abroad because of the unstable economy in their country. As western countries, this is the leverage we have to hold them to account. I believe that in itself counterbalances the risk of their moving assets.