I can answer part of the question, and then I'll close and ask my foreign affairs colleague to join us. NRCan doesn't have any trade-promotion activities. Those activities predominantly fall within foreign affairs and the mission network and the embassies we have.
That said, the department has led a number of missions that relate predominantly to energy and natural resources in which senior officials will work with other countries. My assistant deputy minister is in India right now. In the past year, we have visited Japan, Korea, the Philippines, China, India, the United States, France, and the U.K. So we've been on a number of missions in which we promote energy opportunities, the investment climate of Canada's resource potential, and the energy projects we have. Frequently these countries are of the variety and culture in which a government-to-government contact is the opening to a conversation between the respective private sectors. In other cases the private sector joins the government officials in the conversations. It depends on the nature.
Certainly we do those missions to broadly promote energy diversification and the opportunity for Canada's energy. But we don't have any on-the-ground staff in specific embassies, if you will, who would be buying local people cups of coffee and having that dialogue. That is generally something that the Foreign Affairs network does. Perhaps my colleague Carolyn can add to that.