Colleagues, welcome to the 33rd x meeting of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
The committee is resuming its study on the granting of arms export permits, with a particular focus on permits granted for exports to Turkey.
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Welcome to the witnesses who are in the first panel.
We have with us today Pierre Jolicoeur, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada, and Jean-Christophe Boucher, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary.
Professor Jolicoeur, you have five minutes for your opening remarks.