National Defence committee  Yes. One has to believe that the domestic pressure and the pressure around his inner circle and the oligarchs is a factor and an issue. As to exactly how we measure that and are able to predict what an end state might be, I think we're a long ways away from that, at the moment.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, this speaks to intent, of course. What we have seen is that humanitarian corridors have been targeted. Whether that is intentional or not isn't something we know. It's where we have a gap in intelligence.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, it is speculative, naturally, but it's part of our job to speculate and to foresee different scenarios. One of the scenarios that is out there and relates to the question is the fact that because the campaign is not going as well as Putin had expected, there is a risk

National Defence committee  I believe they are not, Mr. Chair. I believe only parties to the Rome Statute, which created the International Court, can make those referrals. That's one of the reasons Canada, as opposed to any number of other countries, led in that process.

National Defence committee  General, would you like me to take that one again?

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, yes, we've seen a number of attempts at ceasefires to open up the humanitarian corridors, and each time there has been a violation of those ceasefires by the Russian side. That's obviously a very cynical and cruel act. But of course, we continue to call on both parties

National Defence committee  I can't say that we have seen any explicit support by China for Russia in this. In fact, we took note of the Chinese foreign minister's recent statement that the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of any country should be respected and safeguarded, and that Ukrai

National Defence committee  Certainly I'm happy to take on the rest of that question, General. As the general said, we're monitoring the situation with every capacity that we have in order to detect instances of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Already Canada has been a leading state in referring th

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, my name is Kevin Hamilton. I'm the director general for international security policy at Global Affairs Canada.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. With your indulgence and with my apologies to Mr. Chong for my first answer to his questions, he asked at that time about transit at the Taiwan Strait. I answered that accurately, I believe. He asked a question about maritime claims in the South China Sea. I

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, of course different countries will assess their defence and security needs in different ways. I can say that right now our assessment is that Canada is not in need of nuclear submarines at this time, but to the extent that Australia is arguably our closest partner and

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have much more to add. That was an excellent answer. I would just reiterate that any time there's an increase to operational tempo, there is a risk of accident, and there's a risk of misinterpretation. Certainly what mainland China has been doing with respect to incursio

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, it's a very interesting question. Right now NATO is going through a renewal of strategic concept. It's something that's done roughly every decade. It is happening right now. The results will be announced this summer at the Madrid NATO summit. One issue under discussio

Foreign Affairs committee  The member is quite correct that there are other aspects of the AUKUS agreement beyond the centrepiece, which was the Australian acquisition of nuclear submarines. There are such aspects as advancing applied research and innovation, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence

Foreign Affairs committee  It's my understanding that there is no exclusivity with respect to those other areas of the AUKUS agreement that would exclude Canada or New Zealand or the other partners of Five Eyes. AUKUS creates essentially a commercial deal around the nuclear submarine procurement and then r