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According to the most recent government report released in November, during 2002 Canada exported $678.3-million in military goods to 68 countries. The majority of the weapons shipments went to like-minded governments, but transfers also were made to countries at war and to countries whose governments were involved in human rights violations against domestic populations. Because the report again omitted weapons sales to the US and sales of some Canadian equipment shipped for military end-use, the reported total value of all military exports for 2002 was less than one-third the value estimated by Project Ploughshares. In 2002, for the fifth consecutive year, the value of Canadian military exports reported by the government increased, to a total of $678.3-million, nearly 15 per cent more than the $592-million...