Natural Resources committee  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 s

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon. I'm Rosaline Kwan, director general of the trade sectors bureau of the trade commissioner service at Global Affairs Canada. It's my pleasure to be here with you today. As a representative of Global Affairs Canada, please allow me to say a

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Aboultaif, for your question. Yes, we did get a renewal through budget 2021 for the resources we have in the trade commissioner service. That includes trade commissioners in Canada at regional offices. That includes trade commissioners abroad in international key

International Trade committee  Thank you. You raised a really important point. Perhaps I could address that first by talking about the trade diversification strategy. As you mentioned, we want to be able to help our companies grow internationally to build up their capacity to succeed globally. Maybe I'll pass

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, we'll be happy to provide some statistics and information on BDC. If we have time, we have Susan here, who could very much talk about that, maybe briefly. On the U.S. harmonized standards and e-vehicles, in terms of specifics, I wouldn't have those on hand. I was go

International Trade committee  Maybe I'll invite Mr. Dufour, and if we have one minute left or so, we can invite Ms. Rohac as well.

International Trade committee  Thank you. I would perhaps invite Mr. Presutti. Would you have any comments in that regard?

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. I would like to invite Ms. Huddleston from ECCC to respond.

International Trade committee  Thank you for that question. Of course, clean tech, as evidenced by the diverse set of witnesses who have appeared before this committee, applies to many different sub-areas, if I can call them sub-areas. Some are quite deep on their own, in terms of technologies and application

International Trade committee  Certainly, given the evolution and the progress of the industry, we've had to adapt as well. We couldn't, of course, stay behind and see it as purely clean tech in one area versus another. I'm thinking about aerospace, which is quite an established sector, but in aerospace we're

International Trade committee  Apologies.

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. I would invite colleagues from Export Development Canada to respond. Sophie, perhaps that could go over to you.

International Trade committee  I will have to check with our data strategy experts. I don't know whether our ISED colleague would be able to comment a little bit on this, but if further information is needed, we'd be happy to provide it.

International Trade committee  We'll get it to you as soon as possible.

International Trade committee  Maybe I'll invite my colleague Mr. Forsyth to comment if he has any further comments. Overall, trade with southeast Asia is an area that we see as high-potential, particularly with some of the emerging markets and with the trade diversification strategy that I referred to earli