John Ivison: Report of a drone sent to Russia points to holes in Ottawa's export ban via nationalpost
Lama Khodr, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, told National Post that Canada has never issued permits for the export of controlled military unmanned aerial vehicles to Qatar or Russia. Exports of military equipment would require such a permit. Canada stopped issuing new permits of all exports of military and dual-use goods to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
Christine Beaulieu, manager of community relations at the Port of Montreal, the most likely point of embarkation, said that control of goods transitioning through the port are the responsibility of the Canada Revenue Agency, via the Canada Border Service Agency. If the government did not issue an export permit, and the shipment did originate in Canada, then it evaded not only CBSA’s oversight but U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations , the rules that control the export of American defence articles and services.
“The Americans too may have been caught sleeping. ITAR items are tracked very closely. The broker/shipper would have had to apply for an export permit from the U.S. and an import permit to Canada,” he said. “It sounds really fishy. The Americans will be in full spin cycle if ITAR-regulated goods were sent. It suggests criminality, in that they claimed the goods were something else.”
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