Why are Canadian arms fuelling foreign conflicts?

Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock: …Canada’s current arms-export system contains a loophole so large that it undermines the very values we claim to uphold. This gap allows weapons, components and technologies made in Canada to enter global conflicts through indirect channels. Because roughly half of Canada’s defence exports go to the U.S., and because those exports are exempt from the permitting and assessment rules applied everywhere else, most Canadian military goods face no case-by-case review and no public reporting…