Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the three witnesses.
Mr. Knutson, of course you represent your organization, not just military enterprises engaging with Turkey, but civilian ones as well. When you say that the relationship was difficult after the decision was made in October 2019 by the Canadian government to....
Essentially, they said they were cancelling all new permits, but were leaving existing permits in place, so anything that was already permitted could continue to have deliveries, or even replacements of parts that had to be returned to Canada. Here I'm thinking, of course, of the Wescam sensors, as this is the topic of our discussion.
But some months later, on March 3, 2020, your organization wrote to François-Philippe Champagne, the then-minister, that the policy lacked transparency and was impacting hundreds of millions of dollars in contract sales. Can you say in what respect there was lack of transparency? The reason given was the military activities in northern Syria. It was pretty clear why they were temporarily cancelling new permits for control groups—albeit existing permits remained in place. In what respect did you think it lacked transparency?