Thank you, and thank you, honourable member, for your question.
Mr. Chair and members of the committee, I'm Rosaline Kwan, the director general for trade sectors at Global Affairs Canada. I myself am a trade commissioner and part of the trade commissioner service. I'll quickly say thank you to those of you who have expressed your appreciation for our service in your work with us and in the work of your companies with us. We're always very happy and committed to supporting Canadian companies in the forestry sector.
As my colleague, Arun Alexander, mentioned, trade diversification is our priority, and as very well elaborated by Minister Ng, we look at trade diversification in a number of ways. She mentioned the markets, whether they're in Europe or Asia or elsewhere. We also work with Canadian companies to look at the wonderful and new innovations that they have and that they're working on to help them take advantage of those opportunities in the marketplace globally. I should also mention that as part of the trade commissioner service, we have regional offices across Canada as well as over 160 missions around the world. Our regional offices across Canada work with companies in their regions to be able to support their businesses.
In the forestry sector, of course, our trade commissioners work very closely with those you might know in the sector from your areas or constituencies. That's more general on trade diversification in terms of markets.
I also wanted to touch a little bit on looking at new and innovative products using Canada's innovation capacity through our forestry sector, which has been impressive, as the minister mentioned, not only through the pandemic but also in terms of looking at biopolymers and bio-based composites, biofuels, to be able to take advantage of the growing opportunities around the world. Part of our job is to help support them to identify those opportunities and to be able to tap into those opportunities so they themselves can get into the supply chains of opportunities around the world.
Through that, the minister also talked about some of the work that we do, whether it's virtual trade missions, whether it's working directly with companies, whether it's through the CanExport program, through a number of tools that we have to be able to help further the objectives and support the important companies in this sector across Canada. Of course, we continue to place this as a priority, as it was clearly stated, in terms of how we help to support trade diversification for the forestry sector regarding Canadian companies.