Mr. Speaker, one of the successful outcomes of the 1999 team Canada mission to Japan was changing the Japanese psyche in examining among other things the high tech sector in Canada.
The Secretary of State for Asia Pacific recently returned from Japan after meeting with his counterparts and launched the Think Canada 2001 festival in Japan.
Could the secretary of state inform the House as to the intent of the Canada 2001 festival which is currently going on for the next three months and tell us why this is an important initiative in our bilateral relationship with the Japanese?