That's an excellent question and I want to take a moment to let all members know that this conversation today might be the first time I am in front of you, but I am here, just as you are, to serve Canadians in the best interests of success, and our conversations can continue. Whether by email or through a conversation, my team and I are here to work with you, because when we work together, we will achieve success.
Something we've heard time and time again is that when it comes to the government programs and services available to them, the people who need those programs don't know how to find out about them. Something I have taken on is to ensure that members of Parliament are better informed so that they can inform their constituents.
We also want to ensure that members of Parliament can work with enterprise centres within their communities, work with the RDAs, and work with whoever needs or is that service point of contact. We know the Canada Business Network, which has been around for a while, is a single portal and we know it works well. We are helping to champion and advance and encourage more SMEs, more entrepreneurs, to go to that website to get the information they need, whether it's about starting a business or growing a business or considering export markets. We are trying to touch more Canadians and have more of those conversations as well as using members of Parliament on all sides of the House to help us in that initiative.
When it comes to the trade commissioner service, we want our small businesses to consider export markets. The trade commissioner service is something that small businesses and tourism use, working closely with Global Affairs Canada, to ensure that SMEs are able to succeed when they are in those international markets. That's why CanExport increased the eligible dollar amount, so that they could actually make it to those markets to see if they would find success there.