The Senate foreign-affairs committee is calling on Ottawa to clarify the reasons it issues sanctions and improve the ways it assesses whether financial embargoes and travel bans are actually working.
Senators say in a new report that Ottawa needs to be more transparent about how it chooses to sanctions people, how those who are targeted can appeal a sanction and what exactly is expected of businesses.
Canada provides less guidance than its allies on how companies are supposed to follow the rules, including what percentage of a corporation a sanctioned person can own before Canadians end up barred from doing business with it….