To start off, with regard the RCMP, this is clearly another instance where there's not enough transparency. I'm assuming that it's the same instance of an RCMP investigation of this company. If my memory serves me, we only learned about this through the press. There should really be a greater degree of transparency when Canadian officials are investigating potential sanctions-busting, which I note other witnesses have suggested in this study.
In terms of sanctions under the ATT, the ATT states that parties cannot transfer weapons systems. Article 6 of the treaty prohibits transfers if a state is under a UN arms embargo—so a sanction, obviously.
This is where it gets more complicated: This company, the Streit Group, has insulated itself from Canadian export regulations, seemingly quite successfully, because the Canadian government is either incapable of doing something about this or is unwilling.
That's why we point to brokering controls. This is an instance where.... These are innovative sets of regulations that aim to address sanctions violators that exploit offshore export havens. If the current tool kit isn't working, then the tool kit has to be amended. We think that this is a place where Canada could be innovative in looking at how something like brokering controls could apply.