Foreign Affairs committee  I can try a fairly high-level response to that question without, again, dealing with specific companies or specific concerns that might have been raised. As a general approach, the enforcement of sanctions depends on, essentially, law enforcement agencies. That's the RCMP, and t

Foreign Affairs committee  You can afford it.

Foreign Affairs committee  I have noted that the question of a consolidated list has come up a couple of times in the committee. We currently don't have one. It's a question that has been raised by stakeholders as well, and one on which there will be further reflection. I would say that one of the challe

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, without venturing into a domain in which I would get into trouble, to have an order in council, you would generally need to have some kind of legislative basis or some kind of legal authority in some manner, as well. The question, I think, would be, what is the legal autho

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me give a caveat at the very beginning. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to try to give legal advice to the committee, but maybe I can give some information, if that would be of use. I think the question you're posing, if I can word it slightly differently, is, what would b

Foreign Affairs committee  It's also a question I've noticed that has come up in the committee hearings as well. We don't currently have a consolidated list. It is possible to access the lists in a couple of manners. One is through the department's website where the lists are posted immediately once they b

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the question. On the specific question about whether the department is in a position to be able to provide legal advice to individuals who might seek that advice from the department, it is quite correct what Mr. Boscariol had to say, which

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm Hugh Adsett, Legal Adviser and Director General.