Thank you, Minister. I cast no aspersions about your transparency. It's just the optics I was curious about.
Minister, on April 10, 2020, Global Affairs Canada issued an official statement in support of UN Secretary-General's March 23 call for a global ceasefire amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The day before, however, the department had announced it was lifting a moratorium on arms export permits to Saudi Arabia. Of course, that moratorium was issued after the brutal assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, described by the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions as a “premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible”—