Foreign Affairs committee  Right now, imports and exports are tracked under the three programs: the controlled goods program, the Export and Imports Permits Act, and the automatic firearms country control list. Effectively, as a Canadian, when you export, you are tracked into which regimes you are selling

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm a popular lady, I suppose.

Foreign Affairs committee  Our obligations under the regulations begin and end with the conclusion of our contracts. Effectively, we're governed under these regulations from the time at which we enter into a contract with a third party or a nation-state to the time of completion of that contract with the t

Foreign Affairs committee  As you can imagine, it is very important that we're operating on a level playing field, if not at a competitive advantage, when we have those opportunities. We believe that because the UN ATT does seek to raise that bar globally, what it means is that no other country where ther

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think the industry as it stands in Canada is in any way illegitimate or in any way illicit. This industry, for many years now, has been heavily regulated, as I've pointed out, under three separate export control regimes. As I think the committee has been made aware, the U

Foreign Affairs committee  In my industry association head, I would simply say that the scope and the breadth to which we apply instruments of foreign policy for gender-based issues are the responsibility of the elected officials of the Government of Canada. If you are asking me as a woman—and perhaps that

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, I think we need to ensure that we understand that export controls, sanctions, arms embargos, asset freezes, financial prohibitions, and things like that are all instruments of foreign policy that the government has at its discretion to apply. In the case of export controls

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, indeed, although we expect to have conversations with the government as it rolls out the regulations. They have already consulted with us throughout this legislative process, and we would fully expect to be providing feedback during the regulatory phase as well so that we ca

Foreign Affairs committee  We don't have any thoughts on whether or not the amendment is required for the independent firearms owners because we don't represent that crowd of individuals. However, we don't see right now any need for such an amendment in the legislation.

Foreign Affairs committee  Those subsidiaries are already subject to Canada's export permit requirements. The UN ATT will represent the fourth set of rules and regulations. When goods and services come from the United States, not only do the export permits from the United States follow those goods and serv

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, we have yet to see the regulations, so it's hard for us to judge what it will entail. We are expecting, though, that because of the additional requirements around brokering, there will likely be additional governance structures put in place in companies, the need to

Foreign Affairs committee  We fully expect that, yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Ladies and gentlemen, honourable members, good morning and thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I'd like to take the next few minutes to give you the perspective of my industry, the Canadian defence and security industry, on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty and t