Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, everyone, for being with us today as we embark on our study on helping SMEs tap into the export world and some of these new trade deals that we have.
I want to ask a general question before I ask a couple of more specific ones, maybe. We look at numbers, and I think the number we had was 12% of small and medium-sized enterprises are currently exporting. I think that's a 2014 number.
I want to ask generally what metrics we are using. How do we deem success? These trade deals are obviously.... You can use whatever analogy you want. They swing the door open or they build the bridge to these markets, but we can't force people to go through the door or cross the bridge. The goal is to get as many Canadian companies to tap into these regimes as possible.
How are we measuring that? What does success look like? What is the goal here at the outset, as many of these new deals are just coming into fruition now?