Thank you very much. It's good to meet you here.
I'll use the real-life example of the Magnitsky case. Sergei Magnitsky was murdered for uncovering a $230-million corruption scheme. The people who stole that money and killed him kept that money in the west. We wanted to shut down the west to them, so that they couldn't use their bank accounts and they couldn't travel. We succeeded in the United States, Canada, the U.K. and Australia. For some reason, because of the European Union's unanimity requirement—Hungary objected—nobody was sanctioned in the European Union.
Although the sanctions have been quite effective and punishing on the individuals, they could still freely travel in and out of the European Union. That upsets me and it upsets Sergei's family. It's not right.
There are many other similar situations in all of these sanctions regimes, whereby they're sanctioned by one, two or three countries, but not by all of the countries. To be effective, you have to basically close off the world to human rights abusers and kleptocrats. To close off the world, everybody has to do it. This is probably one of the most important parts of the Magnitsky regime: creating a situation where we close off the world. I hope that this becomes a priority, a target and something that Canada takes seriously.
Of course, I'm working and saying the same thing to other governments. When I come here and I talk to you, I'm also saying the same thing to the U.K., the United States and the European Union. It's hard to get everybody to work together. I think this is something that's of very high importance.