International Trade committee  It has affected it dramatically. The specific number, 89%, was for one sector, which is IT or ICT, and that just tells you that we cherish our good IT specialists with their laptops just as much as our brave warriors with their weapons. When it comes to the labour market in gener

International Trade committee  The farmers who are in the territories occupied by the Russians cannot do anything right now. The same goes for the battlefields, but in other parts of the country, they have started their farming season. We want them to do that; it's very important. If we talk about the food se

International Trade committee  It is a major challenge in this part of the world. A lot of fertilizers and potash have been coming from Russia and from Belarus. That is not a market we would like to buy anything from right now. It is a challenge; it is a global challenge and again, I think it's one of the fie

International Trade committee  I just would like to underscore the importance of the food security aspect of the situation. It's not just about the food security situation in Ukraine. Ukraine has been a player on the global market, and we already understand that there will be customers in the Middle East, Afri

International Trade committee  I think we greatly appreciate these steps, both those that were initiated by governments and those that were kind of grassroots. In the 21st century, in good countries, governments do what the public wants them to do. It goes a very long way for us to see how widely the public ha

International Trade committee  If we are talking about the recovery and future rebuilding of the country, it's too early to talk about any specific numbers, but there are numbers that I can already see. GDP decline will range between $500 billion and $600 billion, and we are talking about 13% of Ukrainian road

International Trade committee  I think it would be fair to recognize that there have been some very obvious problems and challenges. One of them was that Ukraine had been fighting corruption for quite a long time, and it was only after the Revolution of Dignity, when we introduced major changes in that sense,

International Trade committee  I'm not sure which Ukrainian oligarchs you're specifically referring to.

International Trade committee  Yes, and I think in many ways now we have to do the homework we did not complete in previous years. It was necessary to take many of these measures a long time ago.

International Trade committee  Oil and gas is another very obvious sector to go ahead with on sanctions. Canada should have a very strong interest in that. For decades, we saw Europe being heavily dependent on Russian oil and gas, and I think it's time to stop that. I have one more comment on the sanctions. I

International Trade committee  We will use this war to modernize our country in the future. This is our major chance to do that. I hope Canada and Canadian companies will use the major recovery and rebuilding opportunities that will come with that. I would specifically mention again that public procurement is

International Trade committee  First, I'm happy to say that Quebec and Quebec's companies have contributed to the success of CUFTA. Actually, you might be surprised to learn that Quebec was number one in provinces in terms of its share in trade between Canada and Ukraine. When it comes to the sanctions and to

International Trade committee  Well, it is very important to understand that in Russia, many sectors of the economy are used as part of the imperialistic state machine. They are part of this major threat that we are dealing with, and that refers specifically to the financial sector of Russia. There is always a

International Trade committee  First, I think it's very important that Canada shows an example to the world, even when your trade with Russia is not that huge and even when the impact of your sanctions is not as huge as we would like it to be. The example that you set to the world is very important, and it goe

International Trade committee  I think it's very interesting and very important that we have focused so much on human capital when it comes to the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement. I think it's a very fair approach. When it comes to Ukraine, it is number one in terms of literacy on the European continent.