Thank you very much, Madam Minister, for your availability and for being here.
My first question is about weapons requests from Ukraine. Ukraine recently asked for small arms, but Canada has exhausted its ability to send weapons. It would have to empty stockpiles from its own units to meet Ukraine's requests.
However, we know that in the United States, civilians have offered to send weapons including AR‑15s, which are now banned in Canada. It had intended to buy them back and destroy them.
Was consideration given to sending those weapons to Ukraine rather than destroying them?