We believe Canada should continue to coordinate with our European and American allies to identify every possibility for diplomatic discussions, whether it's specifically the situation of the political prisoners....
We believe sanctions are part of the broader cause and effect that Russian officials need to have, that there's no more impunity in travel and business dealings. That model goes not only for the official but for their family members and their children, meaning that if you participate in this kind of behaviour, you can't send your children abroad and you can't holiday abroad. You are no longer welcome, because you have transgressed those international norms.
I think Canada has a valuable role to play with our western allies, with our G7 allies, at that partners' table. I think Canada is doing a great job on Operation Unifier through military training and assistance, and I think will continue to speak with the Ukrainian military and other allies about what other assistance Ukraine requires in the hard conflict that is not going to be resolved by diplomacy.
There is a contact line, and there is shelling that goes on, and Ukraine and other partners are there on the ground facing a military conflict as well. As much as we talk about the sanctions, there is—as other MPs have mentioned—that hard military aspect of containing the conflict, so to speak, so it does not go further into Ukraine.