We talk about the global footprint, but I think one of the things we have to recognize is that along with the global footprint is a footprint of regional offices across Canada, which are now a part of the Trade Commissioner Service. These local offices are very important to communicating with the great city of London, in your constituency.
We've continued to push the department for enhanced communication mechanisms to filter and to properly target information back to the regional offices to actually touch SMEs.
One of the initiatives of the department is to have a sector-based approach and sector practice teams to be able to develop expertise that actually gets to specific clusters and groups within different regions of Canada. These are very important parts of the whole commercialization framework for the FTAs that I mentioned earlier.
When I look at the other initiatives—let's say China and India, which have been mentioned—there have actually been specific SME-focused initiatives. For instance, an SME initiative focused on protection of intellectual property in China is one that has been heralded as a model to be replicated in other particular key issues targeting SMEs.
It's a long road, but I think progress is certainly being made.