In recent years, I've often been asked about the clarity of Canadian sanctions. People have often found the laws surrounding sanctions to be rather vague. That was particularly the case last year, when Bombardier engines were found on Ukrainian territory in Shahed drones made in Iran and used by Russia.
It's not extremely clear to everyone whether Canadian companies are in fact complying with sanctions. Even though, in this particular case, the engine was classified as an item used for civilian purposes, not military purposes, the difference between civilian purposes and military purposes is far from clear to most people and businesses. Even the classification on the Canadian government's website is far from clear on this subject. So businesses have to do a lot of research to find out whether their own products are subject to sanctions or not.
So there is a great deal of vagueness around the regimes currently being imposed.