Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, as you're aware, Canada is a major leader over the last decade in the elimination of landmines and cluster bombs on this planet. These are terrible devices. They cause 40,000 people every year to be killed or maimed. That's one every 10 minutes of every day of the week.
The purchaser of part of MacDonald Dettwiler is Alliant Techsystems, and they are a major manufacturer of these devices. With this sale, we are enhancing a company that's manufacturing these killing machines. Canada is totally against it. My question is simple, and I'd like a simple answer: is your department working with Foreign Affairs on this conflict in our international obligations?