Okay, thank you.
I have a question now for Madame Mason and Professor Byers about something they've been talking about, which is the establishment of an arm's-length agency to assess arms exports.
I'm always a bit hesitant about creating a new Government of Canada agency. The last time I checked, I think there were some 204 “ABCDs”, to use an acronym for them. It reminds me of a book I once read by Joseph Tainter about the collapse of complex societies, and I think at some point his thesis was that, by tacking on another agency, you get negative marginal returns.
That said, can you tell us what set-up other countries have and what best practice is in other countries for the assessment of these arms exports? Do they have independent agencies? How do they set it up? What are other countries' models that we can look at?