Thank you.
First of all, I want to say thank you to all of the witnesses who are here in person, and Flavio, it's good to see you online.
I want to start with Ms. Bradbury, actually.
Thank you for your service as past trade commissioner. It's a really important service to Canadian entities for what we do on exports around the planet.
You mentioned the empowerment of women generally in the entrepreneurial space. You talked about some very important programs. You highlighted Quebec and the child care program. As you well know, we are patterning a national program on Quebec's very successful model. We're hoping to see the same sort of results replicated in the other nine provinces and three territories around the country. I want to ask you to comment on that.
As well as commenting on that, could you comment on one other aspect that you raised? It was this issue about how non-tariff trade barriers apply to women who are predominantly small-sized entrepreneurs and how that dovetails or not with the women entrepreneurship strategy.
That's a big policy that we've rolled out over the last few years. It's almost $7 billion of investments. It has several heads. One of the heads of that investment deals specifically with the pursuit of market opportunities abroad through market strategy and promoting business advisory services, etc.
Do you have any concrete suggestions about what we need to do with respect to the women entrepreneurship strategy to empower women entrepreneurs to both export more and also overcome non-tariff trade barriers as they exist as impediments?
Could you comment on both of those?