International Trade committee  I would agree; however, Canada, like any country, still needs to be prepared to take corrective action when other countries are dumping goods or are unfairly subsidizing or doing some things that quite frankly aren't fair. If you leave business to business to deal with itself, th

International Trade committee  Yes. They're supposed to determine injury, right? Obviously, if it was not being fair to the Canadians, they had to do what they had to do. I think most Canadian traders understand that. It's difficult when you get foreign government policy that's actually not good for our econom

International Trade committee  I completely agree with you. In the part of my comments that unfortunately were just going a little over, I didn't get the opportunity to explain that's what I mean when I say our Canadianness. Canadians are known because we're friendly, we're honest, we're easygoing, and all tha

International Trade committee  I think, for the most part, that is the employer's responsibility. Often, when you are talking about small to medium-sized businesses, a lot of government programs, including things like the trade commissioner service, are subject matter experts that a lot of these people get ide

International Trade committee  I can jump in first there. I have probably fielded more questions on that particular topic in the past year than I have in the 10 years prior to that. Quite frankly it's because of CETA and the fact that Canada will have free trade agreements with the United States and Mexico, b

International Trade committee  I agree with that and I would just add that there are many other programs, so keep the threshold to really mean small to medium. The other thing that I would add is that often many programs in the past have had a qualifier that you have to show some sort of track record. You ha

International Trade committee  I can't really comment at this point on specific industry sectors because we have members from all over. I could take up your whole day talking about different examples of what that would look like. I've been in international trade myself for almost 35 years and when you actual

International Trade committee  A big change.

International Trade committee  I'll take that one. I know, that being said, that all three of us are passionate about this. I'm confident we've all spoken about this. I think what needs to be done, in answer to your specific question, and if you look at my written remarks, which I didn't get the chance to rea

International Trade committee  Honestly, that's a bit of a loaded question. Do I think they should be investing more? I don't really have an opinion on that. Do I think that at least some money that's already being spent needs to be diverted towards this? Yes.

International Trade committee  I would echo that. I've talked about the Go Global workshops and I've had people ask me about the Go Global workshops. The one thing that I'll say is that there have been a few SMEs that I've literally tried to push. When you talk to them, you get the same answer, “I'm not big en

International Trade committee  It's a challenge. I think part of the messaging, just to finish my thought on what Corinne was talking about, even in some of the wins.... You tend to hear about the Bombardiers and that kind of stuff. Those big stories get all the media attention. I think we need to start cham

International Trade committee  Yes, it's very risky.

International Trade committee  My comment would be simply.... As you can tell, I wholeheartedly agree with everything that Corinne just said. In answer to your question of what specifically you could do, for the types of transactions where it's the Canadian that's doing the designing, but the manufacturing is

International Trade committee  CBSA, in all fairness.... Just for complete transparency, I co-chair the BCCC steering committee, which is the border commercial consultative committee; I co-chair the CBSA's public outreach committee. For total transparency, I want to put that on the record. I think CBSA faces