President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Canada continues to be outraged by the ongoing violence in Ukraine," Harper said in the statement. An activist carries a tire at the burning barricades close to Independence Square, the epicentre of the unrest in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday. Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press, according to CBC. Ukrainian citizens, Harper said, "must be allowed to exercise their democratic right to peaceful protest without being subjected to deadly force and appalling brutality." Canada is expanding a travel ban on senior members of the Ukrainian government and imposing economic sanctions on President Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced in an emailed statement Thursday. How the West and Vladimir Putin failed Ukraine Ukraine's deadly unrest Ukraine in crisis: Key facts, major developments "Our government has responded by introducing a travel ban on the regimes senior leaders and announcing medical aid to assist the protesters in their time of need." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.