Foreign Affairs committee  These drones contain not just Canadian technology, but also German and American technology and they're then built under licence by Turkey, so there's probably opportunity for greater coordination. There is opportunity for us. The data points that we now have of Turkey's behaviour

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm a bit concerned by the equivalence that Chris is drawing here because, clearly, the NATO intervention had an international umbrella of agreement that was not granted likewise to Turkey for its own intervention. To the contrary, there is strong disagreement between Turkey and

Foreign Affairs committee  Once again, I am afraid that the statement is not exactly an equivalent, because Saudi Arabia has given assurances, and means of verifying them, about the use of the arms. They have not lied about those assurances, as Turkey has done. To my knowledge, so far, Canadian arms export

Foreign Affairs committee  Turkey is undertaking a revisionist and hegemonic foreign policy which, at some times, coincides with our interests and NATO's interests, but, at other times, does the opposite. Turkey does not ask NATO or Canada to tell it what policy to follow, as Libya does, for example. So ou

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chong, I think our emphasis—

Foreign Affairs committee  Our emphasis needs to be on the track record that a particular country has with regard to our equipment and to the equipment provided by our multilateral partners in order to maintain the integrity of the multilateral export control system.

Foreign Affairs committee  What do you understand by independent oversight?

Foreign Affairs committee  As you're probably aware, there are four international regimes now with the ATT that added a fifth qualitative measure on the regimes that are currently in place. Those include things such as the Wassenaar agreement that lay baseline benchmarks against which all parties to the re

Foreign Affairs committee  We saw the aggressive measures by France, for instance, which also had political reasons, namely, their own particular geostrategic interests, the way they see Turkey as a regional actor and their understanding of Turkey's reliability as a NATO member country. Different countrie

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chong, I'm happy to weigh in. I would suggest that it's a conclusion that was reached based on the criteria Mr. Christie laid out, but I think what I'm trying to put forward in my submission is whether or not we are assessing this against the right criteria. We actually nee

Foreign Affairs committee  Good civil servants will always try to work within the authority provided by the legislation, so I think there's perhaps an opportunity to revisit either the legislation or the interpretation of the legislation as it is provided to the departments when making their assessments.

Foreign Affairs committee  Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your invitation. I will speak in English, but you may ask questions in the official language of your choice. The aim of our discussion here today, as far as I can tell, is to have a constructive conversation about the robustness of our expor

Government Operations committee  That's a good question. Data is the most valuable commodity in the world. It has more value than oil, gas or other natural resources. China's geostrategic approach is to dominate in terms of networks and software, everything from data flow to data analysis. They want to have

Government Operations committee  We need a more nuanced approach. Our current approach is too one-size-fits-all. Indeed, not every investment from China is a threat, on the contrary. As an average country with an average economy, we need investment from abroad. We need some degree of technology from abroad becau

Government Operations committee  The risk is bound to exist given the ubiquity of technological facilities. That said, you mentioned Nortel, but in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the largest private-sector employer of engineers in Canada and a world leader in this field. It went completely bankrupt as a result of i