Thank you again, honourable member.
I would take a careful look again at the BWIT. That's the business women in international trade program. I don't have the full details of that program. However, I understand it has been in existence for a while. It works. It's tailored to work under the trade commissioner service in the regions. The main purpose is pulling together events and making sure to connect groups both regionally and with indigenous businesses at those locations.
As a business person, I'm thinking a lot about how the people who really want to do business internationally might already have an idea of what they're looking to do. The primary expectation might not be getting connected with businesses on the ground. It might actually be having somebody hold their hand and support them with some funding or capital to make sure they get an inroad. Open doors and make sure you connect us, instead of organizing events and so on. We are thinking that, aside from the trade commissioner service, those BWIT teams could be given the responsibility of having specific targets for helping, not just to connect us or hold events but also to create some capital for people to go in, because it's a fund. I think the fund has to do with the people themselves on the ground, organizing.
It's about measuring and making sure they get details and more data. “How many businesses have we supported? How many of them were actually able to get into a partnership?” This becomes an indicator that could be measured over time. Then we can get more data.
They could take that up, because, as the name depicts, they're supposed to be supporting businesswomen in trade. I'm not sure if that has been done. That's what I meant.