Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. Thank you for the question. We monitor the effectiveness of our sanctions on the ground and in close coordination with our like-minded partners who also have similar measures in place. As I mentioned earlier, contravening Canadian sanctions is a criminal offence. With respect to Myanmar, we have a consolidated list under SEMA of individuals and entities who are prohibited to deal with....

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. As I mentioned in one of my previous answers, we are aware of the allegations against this firm. We are well aware also of this firm in the context of some of its previous engagements and are in constant contact with the enforcement agencies within Canada, including the RCMP, with respect to potential sanctions violations.

Foreign Affairs committee  As I stated earlier, we have very robust sanctions in place against Myanmar under SEMA. We also have a single individual of the Myanmar military, Maung Maung Soe, who is listed under the JVCFOA or Canada's Magnitsky sanctions. We are constantly looking at the best mechanisms in order to capture the intent of our foreign policy objectives with respect to sanctions, and as of now, have determined that the best way of achieving that is through our existing measures related to SEMA.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly, thank you very much. There is a dealings ban in place under our SEMA sanctions for those individuals and entities that are listed under the sanctions. With respect to the individuals and entities that we currently have on our list, any financial transactions or interactions of that nature would be prohibited.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. Yes, we are aware of the allegations against the PR company in Montreal, Dickens & Madson. They are well known to the Government of Canada for other activities in the past. We are also aware of the allegations that they may have entered into a contract with the regime-appointed defence minister.

Foreign Affairs committee  Contravening Canadian sanctions is a criminal offence. We work closely with enforcement agencies when information or allegations come to light, and then it is the responsibility of those enforcement agencies to investigate.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. I'd be happy to. We have focused our sanctions in this latest round of announcements on February 18 by using SEMA because we did have existing sanctions in place via SEMA, and SEMA does allow us to sanction not only entities but individuals and entities once it is clear that there are connections to the state through a grave breach of international security, which is the reason why we had our SEMA sanctions on Myanmar in the first place.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, not at all. It's simply that SEMA allows us to target both individuals and entities, which the focus going forward may be on.