Foreign Affairs committee  As I mentioned, Canada used the Magnitsky act very briefly in 2017-2018. The United States has used the Magnitsky act more than 500 times, against all sorts of terrible villains all around the world. Britain has used the Magnitsky act more than the Canadians, even though it's bee

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a good question. There's probably no stronger moment for Vladimir Putin than right now, because of the figures you just cited but also because of the timing. We're in the middle of the winter, and Russia exports gas to Europe. In the case of Germany, 40% of the gas comes

Foreign Affairs committee  At the moment, Magnitsky sanctions have not been used for this particular issue since Russia has put its troops at the border.

Foreign Affairs committee  My recommendation is that Canada join its allies, the United States and the U.K., in proposing sanctions against Russian oligarchs. I've heard this terminology “heavy sanctions” coming from the Canadian foreign minister, which sounds good as a headline, but I think she should add

Foreign Affairs committee  I believe at the moment that they're looking at the threat of sanctions as a deterrent, although, as I said in my opining remarks, I think there should be some small taste of the sanctions, because at the moment Putin doesn't believe that any of us are serious about this. Until h

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  The Canadian Magnitsky act was passed in November 2017 and I thought it would be a huge uphill struggle to get people actually on the list, but about 10 days after it was passed, the Canadian government sanctioned the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky, the people involved in the

Foreign Affairs committee  I can't get inside the heads of the officials and inside the Canadian global affairs department, but what I can say is that there are a lot of people in the world on the bad side of the ledger who don't like Magnitsky sanctions. It's a real black mark for somebody to be put on a

Foreign Affairs committee  The way I look at it, that is truly the nuclear option. When that was used against Iran, it basically pushed Iran back to the Stone Age from an economic perspective. The question we have to ask ourselves is whether we should use such a blunt instrument as a first choice or whethe

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to address you this afternoon on the horrible situation in Ukraine. I'm here to talk about sanctions specifically. As some of you know, I am the person behind the Magnitsky act. Sergei Magnitsky was my lawyer in Russia, who was murdered

Public Safety committee  I do, wholeheartedly.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to talk about INTERPOL today. It's quite a topical and important issue, which has risen to the top of the global agenda in the last couple of days; however, it's been on my agenda for a lot longer than a couple of days. I thought it would be us