Good morning, and thank you all very much. Thank you for your presentations. They were quite interesting and very thought-provoking.
I'm going to try to get my questions out quickly, but I will give you a bit of my background. I have an international trade designation that I earned in the late nineties. That probably puts me in a different viewpoint in terms of trade, but in terms of trade education, I taught trade education for almost 20 years. There has never been a time when I have not oriented students and businesses toward focusing on corporate social responsibility. I think that's critical.
On that, my first question is for you, Mr. Whelan. You said that in terms of getting prepared for trade and looking at opportunities, certainly joining a board of trade or working with the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters is really critical. What I've talked about with my colleagues and with other witnesses is that so often businesses don't know what they don't know, so they're not exporting in their second or third years.
At the St. John's Board of Trade, do you work with your businesses to focus on some element of corporate social responsibility, whether domestic or international?