OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will impose further sanctions on Russian and Crimean officials as the result of "the illegal, dangerous and unilateral actions of the Putin regime in Crimea over the weekend," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.
"Today, once again, the government will be announcing and is announcing more economic sanctions and travel restrictions on various senior people in Russia and Ukraine, in Crimea specifically," he told reporters as he met Ukraine's ambassador ahead of Harper's planned visit to Kiev on March 22.
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