Mr. Speaker, once again New Brunswick is on the cutting edge of the emerging new economy. It is leading in the area of making governments more user friendly and making it easier for Canadian businesses to compete in the global economy.
The federal and provincial governments will combine efforts on trade promotion and will share information on export programs. The program being announced today in Fredericton is to be known as "Trade Team New Brunswick", the first of its kind in Canada. This program will simplify the process of helping exporters develop new markets.
Under the trade team concept an entrepreneur will be able to get information on both governments' programs from any economic agency of either level of government. The trade team concept is a result of ten months of work by eight different government agencies.
I congratulate Premier Frank McKenna and the federal Minister for International Trade on this great achievement. I also extend my best wishes to the Canadian Exporters Association which is meeting in my riding today for its 52nd annual conference.