According to the Government of Canada itself, an arms embargo is a sanction that “aims to prevent weapons and military equipment from leaving or reaching a targeted country.” An arms embargo can be enacted immediately and unilaterally by Canadian officials, and this process is neither unprecedented nor unfamiliar. In recent years, Canadian officials have halted arms exports to certain countries following human rights abuses; in the 1980s, it imposed a two-way arms embargo on Israel as a response to state violence against Palestinians. There is no reason why an embargo could not be enacted against Israel, today.