Ms. Susan Bincoletto at the International Trade Committee

On March 9th, 2015. See this statement in context.

March 9th, 2015 / 4:45 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, International Business, Chief Trade Commissioner, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Susan Bincoletto

Yes.

It's clear that for some programs we do look at the sales revenue, and the normal breakdown is $50 million. Some say that if you have $10 million in sales you're a small company, and if you have up to $50 million you're a medium-sized company. The EDC uses the $50-million cutoff point, which Todd will say is almost the equivalent to less than 500 employees.

We do have the two indicators: employees and value of sales. We do look at both, especially in the programs that we have that help SMEs go abroad to investigate opportunities.

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