Thank you, Madam Minister.
Just last year the Taliban seized stockpiles of U.S. weapons after the group overthrew the Afghan government. In 2011, the Libyan civil war resulted in the spread of weapons across Africa. According to the UN, some of those weapons went to terrorist groups via the black market. Now, of course, with shipments of weapons going to the Ukraine, some are really quite concerned and warning that parts of those shipments could end up on the black market or turned actually against the Ukrainian people if they end up in the hands of the Russian military or local paramilitary groups. There have been a lot of skeptics of Canada's tracking of those weapons as per the Arms Trade Treaty.
Can you tell this committee what measures you've put in place to guarantee the tracking of these weapons?