The regulated area is really where the CEPA and FIPA will be extremely helpful. Common people like me do not know what's transpiring in the CEPA area, so we really can't tell you whether you're in the right direction or not. But the fact is that that is what CEPA really is for. If these agreements can help to take taking down those barriers by our having an understanding with the Indian government, that is what we really need here in Canada. That's what CEPA and FIPA are all about in protecting investment going into that country.
On the same point, I would just like to talk to you about the small and medium-sized enterprise situation, which I was thinking about. While the federal and provincial trade commissioners are doing an exemplary job in India and we have several agents across all sectors, it appears that the big companies and the small companies are treated with the same brush. We need to ensure that more time, effort, and hand-holding are given to the SMEs than larger companies for the same services, because they need it.
Perhaps—and this is what I want to throw out to the committee—it's time to have SME-focused trade commissioner services. You have to understand that we have two aspects. One is CEPA, which will deal with what you just asked me. There's also the small and medium-sized enterprises, which are already there. These enterprises do not have the resources to just go there and try to find everything themselves.
Part of this goes to your question. In mining, for example, a small enterprise from here can take highly sophisticated technology to India, but it will need a lot more hand-holding to get there than a large company going there to lay roads, or something like that.
So I might make that suggestion.