Yes, the United States certainly represents a significant market for Canadian exports of defence goods and services. It currently represents 63% of Canada's total exports from the sector. Just to give you a sense of some of our other major export markets, Europe represents 11% and the U.K. 5%.
For that reason, the diversification of export markets will need to be something that we look at very carefully in the context of the defence industrial strategy. We need to make sure that we are providing international market opportunities for Canadian companies, especially given that the Canadian market, compared to a lot of other international markets, is quite small. In order to really build a very long-term sustainable industry we need to be also looking at international opportunities.
