Let's hope it's not an experiment, Madam Chair.
Certainly, countries around the world are taking measures, including border restrictions, to address the pandemic, and those measures can pose challenges for Canadian companies and their representatives.
We understand, obviously, that foreign governments have legitimate public health and safety priorities, just as we do here. Our trade commissioners are working with companies to help them navigate these, to understand what the restrictions are, to understand how to best.... Our folks are trying their best to advise Canadian companies if they feel that they need to travel. If they don't feel that they can travel, we are working with them to pivot their services or how they are working with their clients and delivering their goods or services to clients in markets abroad.
I think I mentioned last Friday that requests for our problem-solving service, which is one of our four key services, have increased by 47% or 49%, something like that, in the last little while, and for obvious reasons. People are asking lots of questions about what they should do, and we've been able to help them find new ways of doing business. As the minister mentioned, the CanExport program has been put in place and made more flexible to support companies in accessing e-commerce platforms, search engine optimization and working with others for financial payment and transaction, and securitizing those things.