Robert Oliphant

Mr. Speaker, I would remind the House that Canada continues to have the strongest regime when it comes to arms export controls. We will continue to monitor every sale that leaves this country. We will continue to ensure that we have the best corporate social responsibility as we are engaged in peace activities around the world. We will continue to do that. We will never let our eye off that ball.

I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. I have a point of order. Since the bells are ringing, could you confirm that we have unanimous consent to go until 5:30?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank Mr. Aboultaif for his really fine questions. I don't think you'll see much daylight between our questioning and Mr. Aboultaif's. I want to mention four areas. The first is minority rights, following up on on his questions. The second is targeted sanctions and the change in the sanctions regulations. The third is the regional conflict and the effect that [more]

Do we have unanimous consent to go to 5:30?

I'm just hoping that you will hear from Parliament to the government that this is a concern to parliamentarians. With respect to sanctions, I'm confused, because we have targeted sanctions that are not meant to hurt populations, but we lifted sanctions to allow for economic recovery. We have shifted to two new categories around human rights and instability. Can you explain how the previous [more]

I want to get to my last question on sanctions. I would also point out that Bashar al-Assad's family fortune may be anywhere from $2 billion to $100 billion. Those are the estimates. I would hope that we would be looking at a recovery of those assets as well. It's unknown what his assets are. With respect to the regional conflict right now with the U.S. and Israel bombing Lebanon, and even in a [more]

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the parliamentary secretary for his thoughtful speech. This morning, I listened to the debate from the Conservative Party talking about somehow believing our government was not standing with victims of violence and crime. This bill stands with victims of violence and crime, particularly hate crime. How is it possible that Conservatives are not supporting this bill, [more]

Thanks to all our witnesses for sharing wisdom and thoughts with us today. I want to get into some of the politics of this period of transition. I think there has been pretty much a consensus among our like-minded partners that the presidential elections of 2024 were illegitimate. We have agreed with that with the non-recognition of the Maduro presidency. The 2025 parliamentary elections were a [more]