Foreign Ministry Statement on imposing personal sanctions on certain Canadian nationals

In response to the most recent expansion of personal sanctions by Canada on June 27 and July 7, 2022, which this time targeted the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in addition to officials, journalists and experts deemed undesirable by Ottawa, a ban on entry to the Russian Federation is imposed on 62 Canadian citizens.

In view of the particularly hostile actions by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s regime, intended to insult not only the multiethnic and multifaith people of Russia but also Orthodox Christian believers across the world, including Canada, the malicious activities targeting the Russian world and our traditional values by those banned from entry were taken into account as the stop list was being compiled.

Below are the names of Canadian citizens included in the permanent stop list:

1. Raymond J. de Souza, a Catholic priest, editor-in-chief of Convivium Magazine;
2.  Maeva Proteau, Director of Communications at the Office of Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada;
3. Adrien Blanchard, Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada;
4.  Tyler Meredith, Director of Economic Strategy and Planning for the Deputy PM and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
5. Cameron McNeill, Senior Communications Adviser for the Deputy PM and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
6.  Ani Dergalstanian, Speechwriter/Communications Advisor at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
7. Tyler Norman, Advisor, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
8. Erin Woods, Special Assistant, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
9.  Gianluca Tatone, Planning and Co-ordination Assistant, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
10.  Douglas Wong, Policy Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
11. Yash Nanda, Policy Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
12.  Nicholas Mahoney, Policy Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
13.  Farees Nathoo, Director of Parliamentary Affairs and Issues Management, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
14.  Alexann Kropman, Legislative Assistant, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
15.  Nasser Haidar, Special Assistant, Issues Management, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
16.  Anthony Laporte, Director, Strategy and Outreach, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
17.  Shannon Zimmermann, Director of Operations, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
18.  Joshua Arless, Senior Manager for Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
19. Marco Paoli, Special Assistant, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
20. Galen Richardson, Senior Regional Advisor, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
21. Hannah Wilson, Senior Regional Desk, Prairies & North, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
22.  Malcolm McEachern, Senior Regional Advisor, Atlantic, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
23. Cedric Sarault, staff member, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
24. Guillaume Bertrand, Communications Advisor, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia;
25. Jessica Eritou, Communications Advisor, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
26. Jesse Bartsoff, Special Assistant, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland;
27. Ian Scott, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC);
28.  Caroline J. Simard, Vice-Chairperson, Broadcasting, CRTC;
29. Christianne Laizner, Vice-Chairperson, Telecommunications, CRTC;
30. Claude Doucet, Secretary General, CRTC;
31. Fiona Gilfillan, Executive Director, Telecommunications, CRTC;
32. Steven Harroun, Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer, CRTC;
33. Scott Hutton, Chief of Consumer, Research and Communications CRTC;
34. Stephen Millington, Senior General Counsel, CRTC;
35. Scott Shortliffe, Executive Director, Broadcasting, CRTC;
36. Elena Krueger, President of Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC)-Saskatchewan;
37. Tara Katrusiak Baran, Policy Advisor, UCC;
38. Inna Platonova, President of the UCC Calgary Branch, Alberta;
39. Olenka Reshitnyk-Bastian, Coordinator, UCC Ottawa Branch;
40. Carol Guimond, President of the Windsor Branch of the Ukrainian National Federation, Ontario;
41.  Leisha Nazarewich, President of the Windsor Branch, Ontario;
42.  Paul Deegan, President and CEO, News Media Canada;
43. Aurel Braun, political scientist, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development;
44.  Garry Keller, vice-president of StrategyCorp, former Chief of Staff, Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada;
45. Eugen Dan Ciuriak, Consulting Economist, С.D.Ноwе Institute;
46. Michael Charles Wright, Head, Canadian Forces Intelligence Command;
47. Steven James Hunter, Deputy Commander, Canadian Special Operations Forces Command;
48.  Pierre Leblanc, former Commander, Canadian Forces Northern Area;
49. Trevor John Cadieu, retired lieutenant-general;
50. Rick J. Hillier, former Chief of the Defence Staff;
51. Mark Lamarre, Chief Executive Officer, Seaspan Shipyards;
52. Jason Alejandro Monahan, Vice President and General Manager, General Dynamics Land Systems - Canada;
53.  Roman Shimonov, board member of the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce; CEO and founder at Roshel Defence Solutions;
54.  Maria Tkacheva, Vice President, Roshel;
55.  Dmitry Gorin, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Roshel;
56. Rafal Rohozinski, Principal, SecDev Group and CEO of Zeropoint Security; Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI);
57. Gwynne Dyer, columnist;
58. Dennis Kovtun, observer, Тhе Hill Times;
59. Alexander Lanoszka, Political scientist;
60. Elie Mikhael Nasrallah, columnist;
61. Brent Hawkes, Protestant pastor, LGBT activist;
62. Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk, singer and composer.

Considering the new Russophobic sanctions Canada keeps churning out, further response measures by Russia will be announced shortly.