Foreign Affairs committee  No, not necessarily. For quicker denials, yes, but for more denials, not necessarily.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have a way out if we take a measured and balanced approach. We were talking earlier about transparency. If we have criteria that are set, clear, easy for the industry to accommodate and for the general public and everyone involved to understand, we will have taken a great step

Foreign Affairs committee  Becoming a model does not inevitably mean losing market share, quite the contrary. We can have processes and work multilaterally without automatically being outdone. We just have to be very strategic in the way we help our companies position themselves in supply chains.

Foreign Affairs committee  That is an excellent question. I would really like to have a precise answer, but I do not. I can suggest a possible answer, however. Working multilaterally still allows us to limit the pitfalls and the possible losses for our companies. That is not the case if we just work uni

Foreign Affairs committee  That could be one way of solving the dilemma. Another way would be to streamline the process but have two independent committees focus on the two aspects of the mission. They would then make their recommendation, and then we could have a body that would balance what is recommende

Foreign Affairs committee  Hopefully, it would be effective. When you talk about controlled exports, you will always have a political dimension. The eventual decision will always be at the prerogative of the minister or of the government, so we need to have a robust system to prevent cases in which there i

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say that adding committees to a process will not make it more effective. The whole process has to be reviewed, meaning the way in which questions are asked, which points are up for debate, the parameters used for that debate, and the way in which decisions are reached. O

Foreign Affairs committee  I would only offer speculation, but one thing that you could say, though, is that in all liberal democracies, defence industries are under tremendous pressure regarding the social acceptability of their products and services.

Foreign Affairs committee  If you examine the cost structure of companies, you see that there are a lot of costs for bridge financing while there's a delay. There are also the human resources-related costs of maintaining human resources that do not work on projects that bring in cash flows. You also have a

Foreign Affairs committee  I concur that the U.S. is the benchmark, but compared with some European countries, Canada should not fare so badly. I do not have [Technical difficulty—Editor]

Foreign Affairs committee  One thing is.... You are quite right to mention that concern; it is important in this issue. Companies certainly have the moral responsibility to raise flags if ever there is a problem with the use of their equipment. However, beyond that, if there is no contract between a defen

Foreign Affairs committee  A system like that could certainly be put in place with the collaboration of industry, because it's in the interest of industry to streamline the process, as well as it is for the government that is bidding in the process, so it would be a win-win, and industry would know far fas

Foreign Affairs committee  One issue may be the fact that if you do that in advance, you also.... If you do it in advance, you increase the uncertainty throughout the process. The problem you are pointing out would be solved if the criteria were much clearer, as we were saying at the outset, and if the p

Foreign Affairs committee  That all depends on what Azerbaijan might have used them for. We have to highlight that problem of the re-export or loan of military equipment to third parties, because that could be a discussion in the context of defence relationships with other countries, like Ukraine. We know

Foreign Affairs committee  We can certainly foresee that. NATO's structure is quite decentralized, but the structure has committees that operate across disciplines and across agencies. It allows that kind of mechanism to be put into place. A mechanism of that kind can also be put into place voluntarily by