Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Professor Fergusson, I want to welcome you to the committee. I wish I could say it's nice to see you, but it's nice to hear you. I'm a University of Manitoba alumnus; I majored in political studies. That was back in 1983, so I don't know if we would have crossed paths, but there were some wonderful professors in those days, Paul Thomas among them. It's nice to see you and have a fellow Manitoban here, or hear you, sorry.
One of the areas that I'm quite interested in is this conflict, if you will, between foreign policy interests of countries and their international obligations when it comes to export permits. For example, Canada, as is Turkey, is a part of the Wassenaar Arrangement. The ATT, domestic legislation, all basically cover the same ground on issues in terms of making sure there aren't human rights violations, that there are risk assessments and so forth. Do you see this as an issue, or should these decisions be made strictly based on our international obligations?