Canada is considering its options in response to the decision of the United States to allow its citizens to file lawsuits against foreign companies that use properties seized by Cuba’s Communist government since the 1959 revolution, said Canada’s foreign minister Chrystia Freeland, Reuters reported.

“Canada is deeply disappointed with today’s (U.S.) announcement. We will be reviewing all options in response to this U.S. decision,” noted Chrystia Freeland.

According to her, Canada will fully protect the interests of Canadians conducting legitimate trade and investment with Cuba, and that she had discussed the issue with her counterparts in the European Union.

Earlier it was reported that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the administration lifts a long-standing ban on US citizens to sue foreign companies using property that was nationalized by the Cuban government after Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959.

Trump threatened in January to allow a law that has been suspended since its creation in 1996, permitting Cuban-Americans and other U.S. citizens to sue foreign companies doing business in Cuba over property seized in decades past by the Cuban government. Title III of the Helms-Burton Act had been fully waived by every president over the past 23 years due to opposition from the international community and fears it could create chaos in the U.S. court system with a flood of lawsuits.