It's been one of the limitations of understanding what the export markets look like for Canadian firms. As I mentioned, the exporter register database, where most of the data that's being analyzed is coming from, does have its limitations. If you export less than $30,000 in a year, you're not included. According to our data there are quite a number of others that are at least experimenting and trying to get into other markets that way.
Another area that I know we've talked about before is that it doesn't always capture the way business is moving today. There are a lot of small businesses—and I've spoken to them myself—in Canada that have four, five, or six employees and who do all their design and marketing and research here in Canada, but manufacture their products in another country and then have them exported from that other country to other countries around the world. I don't believe they're captured in any way in the export data that exists and there's a lot more of that happening. Or they're part of a value chain, so they're not directly involved in exporting, but they are critical to the export market because their particular component is part of the bigger machinery that is being exported.
I feel we're very limited in terms of the data that we do have and understanding what is happening in the marketplace out there in Canada. I often feel it's under-representing the activity that's occurring. I think we need to do a better job of capturing what's happening in the marketplace.