It's a pleasure to have both of your here to talk about the excellent work you do at the trade commissioner service.
I come to this from the perspective of having been on the inside and also of looking at it from the outside. Several decades ago I had the opportunity to work at an international trade centre in Canada and also at the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C., and I've also seen this from the perspective of leading delegations to Commonwealth countries, through the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and invariably meeting with trade officers who inform us about the work they're doing locally. So I have to say that I'm very impressed with the work that you're doing, but I still have some questions.
First, Mr. McGovern, you talked about how you used to be with the Team Canada office. I still think there are a lot of Canadian businesses out there that hear about these things in the news and they wish they could be on one of those visits to a foreign country with the minister or the Prime Minister, but they don't know how to get involved. They don't know how to get on the list. They don't know what details are required, what the costs are.
Could you briefly elaborate on what a business would need to do to be involved in one of those?