While Canada has improved its military export control practice, Canadian military commodities continue to find their way into regions of persistent military conflict and to states with serious and ongoing records of human rights violations.

Project Ploughshares has developed recommendations for tighter export controls in line with international obligations and with Canada's official policy against sales to countries in conflict or in violation of basic human rights obligations.

Our policy objective is to entrench in Canadian law and practice the principles of the Arms Trade Treaty and the general obligation under the United Nations to demilitarize political conflict.

Project Ploughshares continues to engage government officials, NGOs and civil society, and, where appropriate, business leaders in advancing this objective.

Major Publication

On the Record: An audit of Canada's report on military exports, 2003-05 January 2009