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Foreign Affairs committee  If I may, just in response to your question, sir, under our principal objectives of export controls and trying to balance trade and security, the first criteria that we look at in evaluating any proposed military export is this: does or will this export cause harm to Canada or he

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Paul Galveias

Foreign Affairs committee  We envision it having very little impact on our relationship with the United States. Currently, as you mentioned, very few items from Canada require an export permit to the U.S. There's more than one approach that may be taken in evaluating an export, whether an individual permit

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Paul Galveias

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question, sir. To start with your last question first, Canada's export control system is a gold standard. We are recognized internationally as exercising a great deal of diligence by making decisions based on clearly articulated principles, procedures, regulati

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Paul Galveias

Foreign Affairs committee  They're relatively similar. By way of explanation, if I may, Canada is a member of four existing export control regimes. The one that deals with munitions items primarily is the Wassenaar arrangement. We are one of 41 states that are like-minded and belong to this arrangement o

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Paul Galveias

Foreign Affairs committee  â€”but the actual systems are quite different.

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Paul Galveias

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not as familiar with the Chinese system, so I would be unable to give any meaningful comparison. As far as the Russian system goes, we do not have a single state-authorized exporter for munitions goods, as the Russians do with Rosoboronexport. Russia is a Wassenaar member a

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Paul Galveias

Foreign Affairs committee  The Canadian export control system is concerned not only with the goods that are being exported, but also with the destination—to whom they are going and how they will be used. Depending upon the location, we use, to a greater or lesser extent, a consultative process within the D

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Paul Galveias