Minister, on March 18, 2015, our Prime Minister announced support to help boost Canadian exports, specifically, a new export market development program that will provide a total of $50 million over five years in direct financial assistance to entrepreneurs seeking to export to emerging markets for the first time, and an expansion of the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, representing $42 million over the first five years, and $9.25 million in ongoing support after that. So can you tell us how these two programs will assist SMEs to make the leap into exporting?
On May 11th, 2015. See this statement in context.