Absolutely. Technology export controls restrictions for components, systems-level technologies and a wide range of technology development software has to be remembered. CAD, CAM and BIM platforms need to be tightened, especially those that can be directly or indirectly used in the Russian military campaign. The goal of western democracies needs to be to degrade significantly the Russian military, aerospace and space sectors, in this case.
On how to track these, I think the one thing Canada can help with a lot is working with its private space sector and private space sector actors around the world to more rapidly release geospatial imaging satellite data to help fill in the “dark ship” problem. We can do this using multiwavelength data to find ships that are evading sanctions, as well as ship-to-ship oil transfers and things like this. It's using not only optical satellites that have open-source use from the commercial sector, but synthetic aperture radar, RF—radio frequency—and other domains.
This will really help and it will build capacity, because then you can have—because these are all open source datasets—civil society, NGOs, academics and the investigative journalist community work to build capacity and then flag for governments like Canada who to enforce on and how to get this done.