Yes, absolutely.
First of all, thank you very much for those kind words. It really, truly is a pleasure to be representing Canada here at the World Trade Organization.
Let me say a couple of things. For the past several years, Canada has taken a leadership role in the organization at the WTO in the terms of both the policy piece of trade and gender and in particular women in trade—everything that is about mainstreaming issues of gender across all of our agreements. That is as...I was going to say “basic”, but that makes it sound negative. However, it is as basic as looking at how some of our agreements, when they were first negotiated, didn't take into account that some of the barriers faced by those companies that are actually using the agreements will differ, depending on whether they are women-owned businesses or not.
It's taking a look at that and at things that are a little bit more sophisticated and a little bit more cross-cutting across the organization—for example, looking at how the WTO as a negotiating body works and deals with women-owned businesses, or allowing them to participate as observers, for instance, in some meetings and events we have at the WTO, or working more closely with some of the WTO and United Nations organizations, in particular the International Trade Centre, which Canada just recently recommitted funding to.
The International Trade Centre is a joint WTO and United Nations organization that is geared towards helping small businesses, in particular women-owned, youth-owned, youth-led and indigenous organizations, particularly in developing countries, to access markets. It's also creating the environments in those developing countries so that they can also better utilize exports from other countries that are looking to enter their markets.
Canada is—