Canada has been imposing sanctions on Russia, Russian companies, and individuals for several months, as well as on people closely associated with the regime who have been banned from travelling to Canada, and a number of Russian corporations that we believe are involved in what I would call the Russian military industrial complex. We've imposed financial sanctions on them and on some Russian banks that we believe have been involved, indirectly at least, in the de facto invasion of the Crimean eastern Ukraine.
On March 11th, 2015. See this statement in context.