Canadian firms are generally ready to internationalize, and they've been doing this very successfully for many years. Of course, there are still lots of hurdles they are facing in all kinds of sectors, either strategic or non-strategic.
Canada, for many decades already, has been helping Canadian firms going abroad. Right now, as we are looking at some of the bigger concerns and problems we're facing, one of the issues is that in many sectors—or in some, at least—we are overly dependent on specific countries. As a result of that, there is a need for us to reflect on what we can do to make sure our companies can get stronger in other sectors.
In non-strategic sectors, the most important thing is to continue reflecting on which countries we can develop trade agreements with and how we can use our diplomatic corps to help our companies internationally in these countries, but ultimately, we simply need to support market mechanisms. Then there are other strategic sectors, and maybe there is more of a need for us to reflect on industrial policies if it is going to help us reduce overly strong dependencies on specific countries that could conduct coercive actions against Canada.
That would be my answer to your question.
