It's a good point. When you talk about large companies, the services they require are often different. For example, when the French trade minister goes to meet with his counterpart in a foreign country, the ambassador and some trade commissioners will be alongside him making the point that the French company is doing a great job and would be a great fit for what the country needs. Do you want to start charging a Canadian company for a phone call that a trade minister might make, or for a good word that an ambassador might put in when he meets with officials in a foreign country? It's hard. A lot of these services are relationship based.
I'm not sure, but maybe it would be interesting to look at what other countries are doing. I think if the trade commissioner service is looking to raise revenue, it could possibly look at expanding its services beyond what it does right now.
I know that the Swedish trade commissioner service, for example, has people on the ground acting almost as sales agents for companies. For very small companies that don't necessarily have the means to hire a full-time staff person in a target country, they can use the Swedish trade commissioner service to do that. I'm sure there are other examples where that's the case.
I think it's dangerous to go down the road of charging for services that are already provided. The needs of small and large companies are different. Other countries are providing these services that we're getting free of charge, as well. Going forward, it's a discussion that we probably need to have, but I think we have to be very careful before going down that road.