Marty Morantz at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On February 28th, 2022. See this statement in context.

February 28th, 2022 / 12:45 p.m.

Conservative

Marty Morantz Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, MB

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

There are widespread reports in Canadian media that some of Mr. Putin's top oligarchs have billions of dollars in Canada in Canadian assets. It would seem logical that if we wanted our sanctions to have an impact, we should be freezing those assets that are actually in our country.

Russian anti-corruption activists like Alexei Navalny have specifically identified and asked Canada to sanction these oligarchs. Why haven't we done that?

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