—but I will do my best at being very concise.
Essentially, as I said in my remarks, the autonomous sanctions regime is composed of two pieces of legislation that are similar but complementary: SEMA and JVCFOA. When one of the triggers included in those two pieces of legislation gets tripped up—and here I would refer to when an international actor is seen to be in contravention of...gross and systemic human rights violations, having committed grave breach of international peace and security, or having committed acts of significant corruption, as well as when an international organization of which Canada is part calls on its members to impose sanctions—we are able to list individuals through a regulatory process under these pieces of legislation.
It is important to note that what we need to do is ensure that we have sufficient evidence obtained through open sources to provide a package that respects due process and the rights of individuals. When we are able to accumulate such evidence, we put through the regulatory system an order in council that, once in effect, blocks individuals from having personal financial dealings with Canadians. Effectively, it freezes their ability to interact economically with any entity in Canada or any Canadian abroad.
Of course, the first institutions that are seized with acting on this are the financial institutions, which follow this very closely, and that usually leads to an immediate freezing of these individuals' financial assets.