Foreign Affairs committee  To start with, New Zealand didn't put it in the regulations. They have mandatory prohibitions in the act, not in the regulations. With the other two, I don't know, but we can certainly check and provide that. I would be very surprised if the mandatory obligations were in the re

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly we can look for that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you once again. Thank you very much for that very important question about the Canadian Commercial Corporation, which increasingly plays a very, very important role as a broker, essentially, between the government and potential exporting countries, and of course played a

Foreign Affairs committee  Ms. Laverdière, thank you for your question. With your permission, I will answer in English because of the terminology, which is quite technical. I, of course, associate myself with the comments Alex made, but I would also like to address a section of the treaty that the foreig

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to quickly go back to the original question to note that it's not just a matter of the strength of the end-user certificates, and so on, that the U.S. has. It's the fact that they have quite different criteria for determining whether an export should be allowed. A very o

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll pick up on the comment about it being a process of building momentum. I would just refer to the land mines treaty as a very good example. The main producers of land mines, the United States among them, were outside the treaty, but eventually they saw the wisdom of it. They s

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for giving me this opportunity to address the committee on this most important legislation. I fully support the comments just made by Alex Neve and will pick up from where he left off. My work toward achieving robust Canadian and international standards for the expor

National Defence committee  First, of course, I would note that the information that the majority of the goods are ending up in Russia really underscores the hard economic reality in the fact that there's an interrelationship that cannot be denied. In fact, that's what the Minsk agreement recognizes. I als

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. Well, I certainly would agree with the comments about judicial reform, governance in general. Canada has a great deal of experience in helping with judicial reform and building capacity there. I think that's something we're doing all the time, and we could

National Defence committee  Yes, well, neither side has walked away from the agreement, and that's the point. I would certainly hope that the first ones to walk away from the agreement are not Canadians, if in fact we want to go forward. I come back to the fact that it was the Ukrainian minister of defenc

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. I do appreciate that. I share your disappointment at what transpired. What I would say, and I'll provide my notes after, is it is not about not sanctioning gross human rights abusers; it's about how we do it. What I'm arguing for is the consistent approac

National Defence committee  Oh, come on.

National Defence committee  I haven't worked on projects on the ground in Ukraine, but I have trained Ukrainian military, and I have been in Ukraine dealing with other issues, namely, the nuclear weapons issue, which was referenced by my colleague.

National Defence committee  No, I have not. That is not what is informing my comments. I indicated training in UN and NATO peacekeeping on the ground in a range of places—that's what I stated—as well as a lot of diplomatic engagement, including in Russia and in Ukraine—

National Defence committee  —and with Russians and Ukrainians.