Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Ms. McPherson. The Canadian side is helping by backfilling as much as possible into the U.S. effort to provide Germany with more LNG. We have been receiving from a lot of our allies—Norway, Netherlands, the U.S. and others—quite a bit more LNG. We've been impo

Foreign Affairs committee  I think we have to see what happens now with the turbine that's there. I would hesitate any to make kind of guess of what's going to follow. If Russia doesn't pick up the turbine that's sitting there ready and in perfect condition, it creates a different kind of situation.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think we have a position. I think we now have a decision by the Canadian government to support us in this and we will see what happens. We have to see what happens.

Foreign Affairs committee  We thought that the turbine was a potential way of continuing more gas supplies and we wanted to test it. It doesn't—

Foreign Affairs committee  No. It was always about insisting that the turbine was absolutely technically necessary. That was always the question we had, and we had it from the very beginning. We were very transparent about it. I can't find it in a hurry right now. I could read you the interviews that Min

Foreign Affairs committee  I believe I mentioned beforehand that this is a hybrid kind of war, and it's a disinformation war. To have given the argument to the Russians that we brought the lack of gas upon ourselves would have been a strong argument in the disinformation war that—

Foreign Affairs committee  It could have eroded our support in the long term. As I say, right now support is strong, but we want to keep it that way.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. The government—and that means, in this case, mainly Minister Habeck—wrote a letter to Minister Wilkinson, in which he explained that the turbine was a contractual obligation of Siemens to provide service and maintenance to Nord Stream 1. This was a crucial part of mai

Foreign Affairs committee  No, that's not true. That argument was made.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Morantz, what we didn't believe was that the delivery of the turbine was absolutely crucial to the technical ability of Nord Stream 1 to continue to function. We doubted from the very beginning that this was the case, but we thought, or we argued, that it was important to ful

Foreign Affairs committee  Germany is trying to get out of Russian gas as fast as possible. We have reduced our dependence from 55% to 26% right now. We're making enormous efforts to save energy. We're making enormous efforts to diversify by getting more energy supplies from many of our partners and fillin

Foreign Affairs committee  I think we feel a strong moral obligation to support Ukraine in its battle against Russian aggression. Germany changed its policy 180° two days after the attack. Germany has by now delivered a lot of weapons. I can give you access to the full list, if you want. It is also in the

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I think that's something to decide. Obviously, with the turbine not being picked up, that question absolutely arises. I think we will discuss that in the near future. Right now I can't give an answer to that. Right now there is one turbine. Russia doesn't seem to want to pi

Foreign Affairs committee  There was not a discussion of withholding any kind of support to Ukraine. We stand solidly behind Ukraine. We have been amongst the strongest donors of every type of aid for Ukraine. What the remark is referring to is indeed what I've been saying. We're in it for the long haul. W

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. I mentioned the disinformation war. We are all, in our societies, subject to Russian disinformation—in Canada as much as in Germany. To have had the pretext of Russia being able to say that the fact we didn't return the turbine was the reason that no