Sure. Under the Assad regime, we had more than almost 15 years of broad-based economic sanctions applied over a period of time. That really impacted all aspects of government activity. The best example of that is the Central Bank of Syria. The Central Bank of Syria had been sanctioned. Realistically, for Canadians to engage in economic activity in Syria, that sanction had to be lifted. That's what was done. What we also say on sanctions is that they shouldn't affect the general population. That's true, which is why we have the humanitarian carve-outs. Remittances were still allowed to be transferred. Humanitarian funding was moving very freely.
Where we couldn't engage, really, was on the economic recovery side of that equation. We didn't have Canadian businesses engaging in the Assad regime to support economic activity at the time. To support the government, we're now trying to change the dimensions of our sanctions policies so that we continue to apply sanctions on individuals, particularly those who were directly related to the Assad regime—chemical weapons, ballistics and human rights abuses—and add new measures that would also allow us to do that in terms of some of the human rights abuses that we still see, and also with destabilizing activities.