Foreign Affairs committee  The Belarus government did not allow them entry into the country.

Foreign Affairs committee  They were not permitted entry into the country to observe the elections is my understanding.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're relying on civil society contacts, like-minded countries with diplomatic missions there, contacts who are in the media, think tanks, universities. Those are the people who we are receiving information from.

Foreign Affairs committee  First and foremost, we're ensuring the confidentiality of the information we receive. We do not want to inadvertently expose them to risks to their person or their families, so we're very careful.

Foreign Affairs committee  On our interaction with people who advise us on the situation as it is, if they are under risk for assisting and giving us information, we have to be very careful with its use and its dissemination, particularly its source.

Foreign Affairs committee  Ms. Grant, has there been an outflow of people seeking refuge?

Foreign Affairs committee  You're welcome.

Foreign Affairs committee  Are you interested in what was exported from Canada generally, or insofar as arms-related exports?

Foreign Affairs committee  Right now I am aware that there are no pending export permits, nor have any been issued to Belarus from that list.

Foreign Affairs committee  We will go back further and double-check for you to be sure.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may go back, you may remember our discussion at the last hearing. The information we're able to give you going back to 2016, if there were any, would not be specific for privacy reasons, but it would be a general statistic, which I think you will probably be interested in.

Foreign Affairs committee  In these circumstances one of the overriding considerations was that we needed to act quickly and send a very strong message. SEMA was a very excellent way to do it, because, as I said, they met the criteria and we were particularly able to put that together quite quickly.

Foreign Affairs committee  As far as the area control list is concerned, it always is a fine line to put that in because of the broad nature of those sanctions. To make sure the sanctions you do are aimed particularly at the violators and do not hurt or harm the general population, those have to be done wi

Foreign Affairs committee  We consider all of our options, all of the tools we have in our kit.