Foreign Affairs committee  To your question, and it's a good one, it is a game-changer. However, it's nothing special about the technology. It's the fact that it's new. It's an emerging technology. We're going to see lots of questions about the use of drones in almost every aspect of our lives. It really i

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you. Azerbaijan has been acquiring a number of weapon systems for the past, I'd say, 10 to 15 years. In fact, many were wondering what the reason for the stockpile was. It seemed to be that.... Those who are watching the region thought that indeed they were going to t

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll quickly add to that, if that's okay.

Foreign Affairs committee  On that question, which I think is a really important one, you have to ask where the technology is being used. In Libya, in some way, I'd say yes, because it is supporting the internationally sanctioned government. In Syria, as well, it's certainly being used to fight ISIS and

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, everyone. I'm very happy to answer questions, more so about Turkish foreign policy and certainly about the regional context. I'll give a little bit of background to some of the issues we're speaking to today, specifically the export permits to Turkey. My friend Christi

Foreign Affairs committee  Yet, it's ironic, because the World Bank, frankly, is where there is far more waste. If you want to talk social welfare and sort of be a right-wing analyst on this view, there is far more valid criticism about how the World Bank doesn't right a tight ship as much as the IMF does.

Foreign Affairs committee  I couldn't agree more. Indeed, the Americans have just appointed the under secretary of the Treasury, who will be in charge of the IMF file, and the history of this individual is quite troubling in terms of how critical he's been of the IMF. The truth of the matter is that wit

Foreign Affairs committee  I can't say that I'm an expert on that at all, to be honest with you. I'd only say that the WTO dispute settlement mechanism...versus what I think one of the positions we should have is that of really trying the strengthen the NAFTA one.... I think that works to our favour. One

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a good question. To be honest with you, I can't tell you what the effect would be on the Canadian financial institutions. There is a global economic worry, I think, that money generally will flow to the U.S. in a hunger for increased returns. Capital, as we all know, is v

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, a few weeks ago I would have been more confident in an analysis because the U.S.-Turkish relationship really had General Flynn at the centre of it, and Flynn, as we all know, has now been discredited. Flynn had worked for the Turks as a contractor, but it seems he had also

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. It's a good point, and there's a lot of power and discretion at the state level. If I may, I'll just quickly link this to the JCPOA. Even with the multilateral breakdown of the...removing some of the sanctions against Iran, for example, with the JCPOA, the states still have

Foreign Affairs committee  On the energy conversation, the U.S. industry right now, just like the Canadian one, is trying to get the value of the dollar per barrel as high as possible, frankly, because much of the fracking industry, where most of the U.S. economic gains are at the moment, requires oil to b

Foreign Affairs committee  My apologies.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks for the opportunity. I received a list of nine questions, which could take hours to answer, but I'll try to do it in eight minutes. Hopefully we'll get somewhere on this. The essence of a few things that I see here is that—as many of you who watch the news as much as I