QUESTION PERIOD — Foreign Affairs
Export of Defence Technology to Turkey
March 16, 2021
Senator Gold, earlier this week, I asked you about revelations contained in documents tabled in the House regarding Justin Trudeau’s decision to grant Turkish President Erdoğan an exemption from our military export ban to that country — an exemption with very serious consequences because we now know that the equipment was used to kill innocent civilians in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Also, there have been media outlets that have received similar documents through access-to-information requests that the humanitarian crisis was barely mentioned in the 400 pages of documents on that issue.
Is this government really interested in the humanitarian crisis that is going on in that region or not?
The answer is yes. Upon learning of the allegations, officials were directed to investigate and those investigations are under way.