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QUESTION PERIOD — National Defence

Military Technology to Turkey

December 1, 2020


My question is for Senator Gold. Recently, we had the Trudeau government announce that they are conducting an investigation into the exemption that was granted that allowed for Canadian military technology to be sold to Turkey, which of course was then passed on to Azerbaijan and used in the massacre of Armenian men, women and children in Artsakh. Yet only two weeks ago we see that the Canadian ambassador was visiting Yerevan, presenting our credentials to the president of Armenia, and she chose not to honour a request by the ANCC for her to visit first-hand the evidence on the site where this Canadian technology was used in these atrocities.

Senator Gold, my question is very simple: Is the Trudeau government conducting an investigation in a serious way, or have they arrived at a predetermined conclusion already, similar to what we saw recently when they put out transcripts of readouts of phone calls before the phone calls had even occurred?

Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate) [ + ]

Thank you for your question, senator. The government is engaged in a serious investigation, and when the results of that are made public, I will be the first to communicate it to this chamber.

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