This is a form of export controls. I can assure you that it's very carefully scrutinized. There have been instances in the past.
A few years ago, Iran launched a missile attack on a U.S. base in Iraq and was reliant on imagery provided by a western satellite company when planning its attack. Fortunately, the United States' intelligence services were able to penetrate those communications, knew that the attack was coming and were able to move most of their personnel out of harm's way.
Yes, there are unscrupulous western companies that will sell imagery or communications to anyone. Regulators need to be on top of this, monitor it and punish it when it occurs. That's an export control issue, essentially.
What I'm concerned about is that we essentially have Canadian companies that are acting like private military contractors in providing support to a foreign armed conflict. That has implications that need to be very carefully considered in advance. It would be like having a Canadian company send mercenaries to fight on the front line in Ukraine. Would we want to approve that? What would be the possible implications?
I'm not sure that those kinds of discussions and careful policy considerations occurred in March 2022. The next time we get into this situation, I would hope that we would have a playbook for how to analyze what the right decision is on the part of the Canadian government.