When [Petro-Canada secured exploration rights to 10,400 square kilometres in Syria] in May, it declined comment on why it was doing even more business with a regime that had already been cracking down on popular unrest for 10 weeks. On Friday, a spokesman for the parent company Suncor Energy...told [the article's author] that it would comply with federal sanctions — except that the current sanctions do not include either its gas project or its exploration rights...