Foreign Affairs committee  No, I don't think Canada has been led up the garden path. I don't know if the situation—in terms of the decision-making process in Azerbaijan relative to its relations with Turkey—set what you basically hint at as some sort of conspiratorial thinking. It's probable that a serie

Foreign Affairs committee  It's essentially fair, except with or without the Arms Trade Treaty, the issue of diversions and the issues surrounding the problems of monitoring and enforcing diversions in export controls still exist. They don't go away. All the ATT does in this context is codify a set—relativ

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the Government of Canada needs to resolve this bilaterally with the Turkish government as a means to indicate to the Turkish government that this, for Canada, is not an issue about trying to punish Turkey for disagreements, or differences about internal Turkish behaviour,

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a difficult question to answer in the absence of getting access to the primary documents or talking to the people who were directly involved in this. Let's remember that if we look at the specific technology that the Canadian companies.... It's very important to recogniz

Foreign Affairs committee  Very briefly, my answer to this is that I can't answer that question, clearly because I'm not an expert on national foreign export controls. I would suggest to you, however, that at the end of the day most countries are shining examples within the political realities and the stra

Foreign Affairs committee  In my view, the simple answer is you don't and you won't. It's just not going to happen, because the political interests of the wide range of states within the international community vary so much. That's why when you read the documents—and it's not just in the areas of the Arms

Foreign Affairs committee  Of course, you can't ignore them. In fact, most times I would argue they trump the others.

Foreign Affairs committee  Not at all—it remains the same. I mean, I don't know the evidence. I've read the evidence that has come out of Foreign Affairs and all the reports that have come out with regard to this technology, and it just seems to be very strong evidence, but the exact details, how it was d

Foreign Affairs committee  Outside of decisions that are made on political grounds—and I emphasize “political grounds”—particularly when one considers the significance of Canadian military defence exports, or the lack thereof, which is the nature of our industry, there's not much GAC can do. One can try

Foreign Affairs committee  The straightforward answer is no. It was very nice, and I think part of the issues that have emerged over the past 30-odd years, or I would say 25 years, took place and evolved in a different world from today. They gave countries like Canada, and Canada in particular, the luxury

Foreign Affairs committee  Governments that are considering controls must weigh strategic, political, economic, technological, cultural and moral or ethical concerns, and in many cases these do not easily line up together. On the surface, these are never easy decisions. However, for Canadian governments,

National Defence committee  The danger of doing two much is a simple one. If NATO does too much and expands what it's doing right now even further, that is likely to be a signal to reignite the war that has not stopped, but has sort of paused—albeit that's not the right word. But you know what I mean: it's

National Defence committee  Those would go up dramatically, I would think, if NATO did more—

National Defence committee  —which doesn't mean that bilaterally, individual states, who are portraying themselves as being at arm's-length distance, cannot do more.

National Defence committee  I do. Now, I'm not an expert on this. My colleague Dr. Charron, who has been here, is the real expert on this, but I would suggest there are two things here. If the Chinese motive to engage in the Arctic is a function of their economic interest to be able to move goods more eff