International Trade committee  That is a very important issue for us because we are globalization players; we are not standing on the sidelines. Globalization, as I pointed out, offers many opportunities but it also harbors many risks. The coalition government that took over from the military government decide

International Trade committee  We give and want to give incentives in terms of technical assistance, information that's very important on different markets, and where you can go to export. We have, in countries with whom we have free trade agreements, experts in their field. Here we have offices in, for exampl

International Trade committee  I think you have only two honorary consuls in Chile.

International Trade committee  I want to begin with the last part of your question. I think it is very important that we can work together, between our institutions, to promote this international trade. It's not my job to make some of these suppositions on whether your policy in terms of foreign trade institut

International Trade committee  We think the results have shown that the free trade agreement with Canada is one of the best that Chile has signed. That is our position. We want to increase it, but we don't regret this step. To your question, Mr. Julian, the first thing is value-added exports. This is the most

International Trade committee  Yes, it is. They visited Chile in November and had quite an important meeting with Chile's education minister. She may come to Canada at some point to meet with Canada's provincial education ministers and representatives from the Association of Community Colleges of Canada, and a

International Trade committee  I think there are two or three elements that are very special for us when we define a country. Normally we know exactly that in China, in India, and in many other big countries and big markets, we want to establish our entrepreneurs. It's impossible now for us to forget China. We

International Trade committee  That's what we're trying to do.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. Education is important to us. I said in my presentation that our most serious problem is the quality of education. I am also referring to the quality of our technical education. We have some very good universities, even though they are not all at the same le

International Trade committee  We do not offer our young people a high quality alternative—namely technical education.

International Trade committee  That's indeed the trend we've observed. We're trying to fix the problem and change things. For the past 10 years, we've gone to great lengths to improve technical education. In Chile, technical schooling is dispensed by private mining and agriculture companies.

International Trade committee  No, there are not too many obstacles. In the case of the European Union, we have a more complicated system of free trade. It is not only free trade. We have a system of technical cooperation to help enterprises go to market. They are Chilean.... We also have other free trade ag

International Trade committee  I want to clarify something. We can lower the poverty, but it's not the same as lowering the inequality. That is because all is increased, but increased in the same difference. Do you understand? That means we have an equal rise in income, but when we measure the difference betwe

International Trade committee  It is a very good question. We have to work with the Minister of International Trade. We have a meeting next month with the commission that administers the free trade agreement. Madam Marie-Lucie Morin perhaps is going to Chile to make the evaluation, the first. We had worked in

International Trade committee  Thank you for your question. It is very important. The definition of poverty is not very easy. We have many poverties, not only one. You can also have poverty with money in the pocket. We issue a national survey every three years, in which we measure poverty not only in terms o