I think that Canada is doing an outstanding job in that sense, and this is what I said at the beginning of my opening comments with regard to the important role of middle powers.
Canada is recognized as a very strong space diplomat. It took a very active part in the first open-ended working group that ran for two years. It was also one of just 22 nations that took part in a group of governmental experts, which just closed off earlier this year and came up with a consensus report, which was no small achievement. The open-ended working group was unable to come up with any kind of consensus report—even one simply stating that it met on these dates and these countries took part—because it became politicized. To be frank, Russia refused to agree on any consensus to release a report.
However, we did get to a consensus report in that smaller group of governmental experts, and Canada was one of the countries that worked very hard to achieve that. I would highly recommend that you all read that report. It's not very long. It goes into whether or not we need to have binding treaties and into whether or not we can also keep working on non-binding norms of behaviour to, indeed, de-escalate.
Canada is doing an outstanding job. Right now, there is a proposal to have two new open-ended working groups, one focusing on treaties and one focusing on non-binding norms. That is just going to completely dilute the process and make it impossible for smaller nations to participate that don't have large enough delegations to take part in two parallel processes. Therefore, Canada is working very hard with a lot of other countries. The vote will take place next week in New York as to whether or not those two open-ended working groups can be merged into one.
I think one other thing that Canada does exceptionally well is the corridor diplomacy and behind-closed-doors diplomacy, where it works with smaller nations to make sure that there is shared understanding, to strategize about how to really push that vote forward to get a single open-ended working group, and to also, outside of the UN multilateral discussions, keep working together with other nations on space literacy, space—