Thank you for your question.
It's a very difficult position. We want to maintain good relations with Turkey because it is, after all, a member of NATO. However, prohibiting certain forms of trade could offend the Turks.
I can't give you a better answer than what I'm about to tell you. If, after all, we decided to sell weapons to the Turkish authorities, we would have to ask them for a better monitoring system, or at least to tell us what will be the end-use of these weapons by the Turkish state. All we can do after that is hope for collaboration and transparency with respect to this use.
Our experience in the Caucasus would appear to indicate that Turkey is not ready to demonstrate such transparency. I should mention that the Canadian controls implemented would appear to be satisfactory. The problem is not so much selling weapons to economic partners in Turkey, because these partners did their work properly. It's rather that once the designers of these drones have sold the equipment to their country, it is ultimately the Turkish government that can decide to use it for other purposes than we as Canadians expect.
If the Turkish state is prepared to comply with such rules, then verifiable assurances could be required from them.