Evidence of meeting #115 for National Defence in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was sanctions.
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Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Not quite, but they have been whittled down, and are not where they—
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Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Yes, this is not one of the successes. What we are seeing now is....
I sit on the board of Ukrainian Railways, a company of 260,000. We are five foreigners out of seven people on the supervisory board. There are, so far, five of the big state companies that have these and three more are on the way. This brings about transparency in the new system. There are wonderful reforms going on in the health care system right now. You can say that it's second-level reforms that are happening. It's the law enforcement and the judicial system that are the weak spots. That's why we're emphasizing it so much.
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Liberal
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The Chair Liberal Stephen Fuhr
Gentlemen, thank you very much for coming.
Thank you, committee, for the flexibility.
As you know, this committee tabled a report in December 2017 called “Canada's Support to Ukraine in Crisis in Armed Conflict”. We subsequently met on June 12 to talk about this issue. A government response was recently posted, on October 16, 2018. We met today and we have carved out some time to meet with the ambassadors of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia to talk about this from a more broad, regional perspective. Then we have an undertaking to wrap all that up and present, at some point in the near future, a report back to the House on an update.
We understand that's very important to you and it's important to us.
Thank you very much for coming.
The meeting is adjourned.
