I'll give you just a short history first of what my experiences are in Japan. I'm an organic farmer from P.E.I., and I've been involved in many farm organizations in P.E.I. for the last number of years trying to figure out ways of making it more profitable on the farm, but it seems like we have to start finding new markets, new opportunities.
In 2005, I decided that I probably should try to see if I could start doing some export business on my own and see if I could just make an example for other farmers. Actually I didn't really plan to become a businessman. But sometimes it feels daunting to try to start a business like that without.... It always seems you need to have a large corporation or you need to have a lot of assistance. So what I did was I actually looked at P.E.I. and what our opportunities are . We have Anne of Green Gables. We have red soil. We have good agriculture land. Where might that be marketable? I thought, probably Japan.
So I went down to Wayne Easter's office and got his book on foreign embassies. I was pretty green. I didn't know you had to dial 001 to make an international phone call when I started all this.