International Trade committee  I'm offering the perspective as a company that used to do $30 million in business in Canada and now does zero in Canada. We sold all of that to pursue this. When I think about how to make money back, it may not be directly related, but I think the Canadian Commercial Corporatio

International Trade committee  It's probably a selfish measure in terms of the objective of a small business exporter. I think it is an incremental measurement of how one could measure trade commissioners. But it would give an orientation to their organizational structure and procurement processes of the end c

International Trade committee  I don't want to monopolize the discussion, but when we describe our company, we describe ourselves as having made a choice in 2009 to be from Canada. Our priority was to go to the emerging markets where GDP growth still existed. So I think any bridge that gets you from Canada, wi

International Trade committee  One example, and I apologize if anybody's heard it before, as I'm giving it for about the twentieth time, is that we're regulated by provincial legislation because we're in municipal infrastructure. And when I'm in Chongqing, China, and am trying to explain our political structur

International Trade committee  Perhaps I'm not referring to the countries you mentioned, but in Colombia we reached a free trade agreement. I picture the trade commissioners as being one point on a sprocket, and there they were very sharp and onto it. But what surprised me a bit in Canada's effort to reach a

International Trade committee  Thank you for the invitation. I'm Bruce Linton, the CEO of a company called Clearford Industries. Clearford, I think, is similar in some ways to many companies in Canada, in that we have a long history going back more than 20 years, yet we're a small company—and we would have