Your point is well made. In terms of the rules under the current export regime, the criteria for allowing arms to be sold or shipped to Turkey are well understood. They can't be used to batter human rights, for gender-based violence or for support for organized crime. There's a list of criteria.
With some countries, it becomes a more difficult process, for a multitude of reasons, to determine whether it's safe to [Technical difficulty—Editor] ship arms. As I indicated in my earlier comments, countries change over time.
When I was first elected to Parliament in 1994, we were selling nuclear reactors to China. We were selling them CANDU technology, and the situation which [Technical difficulty—Editor] China was at the top of everyone's “let's be friends” list—not today. Countries change, situations change and the context changes, which makes it extremely challenging for Global Affairs to know when to issue a permit and when not to—