Minister, if we're talking about supporting Ukraine, let's make sure Russia doesn't get access to our military secrets.
Since 2016, the PSPC minister has signed off on 199 citizens of China, 22 Russian citizens and four citizens of the Iranian regime, who were international students, temporary foreign workers or visitors to Canada. That gave them access to military technology like jet engines, diagrams, blueprints, electronic countermeasures equipment and missile technology. Section [Inaudible—Editor] goods includes but is not limited to global navigation systems.
Why would we allow our adversaries to enter any defence industry? You allowed that by giving those industries permission to have 199 citizens of the People's Republic of China, 22 Russians and four Iranians access our military defence industry.