On August 10, 2026, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that Canada is imposing sanctions against STREIT Group (also known as STREIT Group FZE and STREIT Group FZE-LLC) (“Streit Group”) under the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations (the “Regulations”).

Effective August 6, 2026, Canada amended the Regulations to add the defence manufacturing company as item 861 to Part 2, Schedule 1. According to the Government of Canada, the listing is based on Streit Group’s “history of supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex by supplying Russian entities with defence products” and that it “continues to feed Russia’s war machine and the Putin regime’s unprovoked and unjustifiable war against Ukraine”.

Since 2014, Canada has imposed sanctions on more than 3,500 individuals and entities that it determines to be “complicit in the violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty  and territorial integrity and in gross and systematic human rights violations”.

We regularly assist clients with the application for delisting process and subsequent judicial review of determinations (or lack thereof) by the Minister in response to those applications for delisting. We have significant experience in the design and implementation of sanctions-related compliance programs and internal investigations. Where breaches are identified, we work closely with clients in making voluntary disclosures and in engaging with the ensuing investigations conducted by the RCMP and Global Affairs Canada.

Authors: Michelle Folinas and Denyses Barthelemy Giron