The situation is that there's a special arrangement between Canada and the U.S. in terms of military trade. As a result, there are no export permits required for the transfer of military goods across the border. Because the current process of monitoring arms exports in Canada is based on following export permits, that is why that particular trade cannot be monitored.
Project Ploughshares has tried to estimate that trade, based on other sources, including the Canadian Commercial Corporation, which operates as a go-between for quite a number of the contracts for military goods between Canada and the U.S. That's why we know those exports are such a large part of Canadian trade. We can estimate the size of that trade at about twice the volume to all other countries combined, so it is a very large component of Canada's trade.
On the issue of bullets and ammunition, that certainly is something we would like to see covered by an arms trade treaty, and a small arms agreement on transfers as well. It's currently being left out of negotiations in the UN process, but there are governments—and certainly NGOs—who want to see that back in the negotiations and dealt with.
In terms of NGO input into the national committee's report and Canada reporting on its commitments under the program of action, yes, we did have input into that process. In fact, the three of us here were represented at the national committee meeting, where we had input. That tradition is being maintained.