Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Subramaniam, earlier you had an exchange with my colleague Ms. Ashton. I wrote down one line. You were talking about how we needed to ensure that we get into markets. You listed off some countries, such as Australia and South Africa, non-traditional areas that we need to get into.
The other committee that I'm a permanent member of is the agriculture committee. We've often had discussions with our agricultural exporters about what's needed to get past non-tariff trade barriers. Often what has come up has been suggestions that we need to staff up our Canadian embassies and consulates with officials from CFIA who could understand the local market, the culture, and try to find ways to get more Canadian agricultural exports into those emerging markets.
Is something similar needed for our export of clean technology? Do we need to staff up Canadian embassies and consulates to get more on-the-ground intelligence about what's needed for us to really maximize our push in this area?