In response to the member's question, I don't have specific information on where these two companies have directed their exports. We've gotten positive reports that they are now exporting, but I think it's still a bit too early to tell exactly how the agreement in principle with the EU would help these two companies in particular. That said, I can find out and get back to you with a specific response.
In response to the member's first question, Mr. Chair, it's very interesting. There is a lot of interest across Atlantic Canada, but I'm seeing it especially within the francophone community in a number of ways. There are francophone economic development groups, such as the one that I just mentioned, le Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse, that have organized workshops and information sessions with ACOA support to reach out to entrepreneurs to get them to start thinking about how they could be exporting to the European market in light of the agreement in principle.
However, I want to mention one example in particular that I find very interesting. It's a new project that we just launched, and it's in cooperation with the territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, which is just off the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador. We've launched a joint economic observatory that has a Canadian component and a European component. The Canadian component is based out of the Université de Moncton, campus de Shippagan. We have a lady there who prepares economic information on the Canadian part, but we have a French component that looks at economic information, not just from France but from all of Europe. We put this together in a number of bulletins that come out regularly and are distributed through a network of chambers of commerce across Atlantic Canada and across France and the European Union. The next bulletin that's planned—in fact I think it might have come out last week—is to focus on opportunities around the new proposed trade agreement with the European Union, and we're planning to have a seminar with business people to talk about the information in that bulletin. This is a very unique arrangement where we're combining Canadian and European information and making it available to business people in Atlantic Canada and the European Union to see what kinds of opportunities there are out there. We're seeing quite a bit of interest in that respect.