Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all of our witnesses today. We've had some technical ups and downs, but we made it.
Ms. Cianfarani, I'm going to start by piggybacking on your opening statement. On November 7, 2017, you appeared before this committee during its study of Bill C-47 on Canada's accession to the Arms Trade Treaty, the ATT. In your opening remarks then, you said:
Canada's accession to the UN ATT will further enhance our very strong defence export regime and raise the bar globally for other countries whose defence export control processes are not up to Canada's very high standards. The treaty places additional burdens on countries that export small arms and military equipment, to ensure the weapons are not diverted to third parties or misused by the actual recipients. It will also regulate the practice of brokering, where weapons are exported from one third country to another. This is in part why CADSI called on the government last year to accede to the UN ATT.
Now that we're today, after Canada's official accession to the UN ATT, which placed human rights considerations at the centre of our export control regime, can you update this committee on your organization's positions towards Canada now that we're officially part of the ATT?