Thank you very much.
There has been some question of the government's position. Just so it's clear on the record for everybody, the Bloc has asked about this a couple of times in the House, and we have made it quite clear that this government is obviously interested in moving towards a small arms and light weapons treaty, if that can be achieved. The government will be working towards that in the round in June on the review of the program of action.
Obviously, we see significant problems caused by small arms and their widespread availability in conflict areas, in troubled areas around the world. Anything that can be done to reduce that is a positive thing. Of course, I don't need to tell you of a lot of the practical problems of hold-out countries going into that kind of a treaty.
It's one thing to have all the good guys play ball, but when the bad guys don't, that keeps things happening in illicit trade. Here you have illicit trades that aren't just state illicit trades, but you can have a lot of private individual actor kinds of illicit trading going on. Canada can't even control the illicit small arms trade into Canada by organized crime. So we see the problems at that level too. Those things are all practical.
I was hoping you could give me some hope that those problems can be overcome or at least positive progress can be made by pointing to stuff that has come out of that 2001 program of action. Are there any successes you can point to, where good things have happened in the world as a result of it?