Thank you, Chair.
I have barely spoken. I know that members will repeatedly say otherwise, but I have not been able to finish more than three sentences at a time without a member interrupting with a point of order—in virtually every case, a point of order that was not even claiming to be about matters of order and that went on longer than I did in the previous exchange making substantive arguments. I'm happy to respond to the substantive arguments that were made under the guise of points of order, as well as to offer a motivation as to why I think this motion is important.
The urgency of this motion responds to the regular appeals we have heard from the Ukrainian government, the Ukrainian government's representatives abroad and diaspora organizations about the urgency of ensuring the integrity of the global sanctions regime. Russia's economy is heavily dependent on the development and export of natural resources, a key part of which is the export of gas to Europe. Energy-related sanctions are the means by which we can and hopefully will starve the Russian war machine of the capacity to continue to enact its genocidal war against Ukraine. That is why we have been urging the government and at times supporting the government in the steps it has taken in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as it relates to sanctions but also expressing extreme disappointment as it relates to the—