Thank you.
I agree that trade missions are a good tool to use. I would like to see women-specific trade missions, and indigenous women-specific trade missions.
I know that one of the criteria for trade missions is that you have to show you have something that can actually be exported. I'll use my business as an example. It's a knowledge-based business. I can provide my accounting services anywhere around the world. I would love the opportunity to do indigenous-to-indigenous trade in order to share my knowledge, but I have to prove that I'm ready. Mine is a little simpler. I just have to go there and talk to people. The requirement of proving the level of capacity you're already at is a barrier. I understand why. You want to be good domestically before you export.
I think that having these exploratory missions, where people can see this conceptually—“Oh, this is actually an opportunity I can pursue”—would be helpful.