International Trade committee  No, we haven't seen that. For all our business we hire local installers, so we don't have that issue with visas or anything.

International Trade committee  I can do the summary version here. Let's start with exporting. I think I mentioned that South Africa, Australia, and Mexico are very good markets for us. We have targeted warm climates because of the type of greenhouse. We don't do a lot of sales in Canada because we're not keep

International Trade committee  I can't say definitely that this is where we got our knowledge from. For a lot of it we did our own research. By the time we engaged these parties, we already had our markets in mind and had done our research. I will say, however, that there are some programs that EDC has been

International Trade committee  Yes, I sat on the panel in the one for Kitchener-Waterloo, and it was very beneficial. I think it had a good response. That was the first time, too, that we had everybody from all the different ministries gathered in the same room and saw them together, and hopefully they'll be w

International Trade committee  No, I haven't come across any issues myself. I'm not the president of the company, so maybe that has something to do with it. We have a male president.

International Trade committee  Yes. I think overall they've been very positive experiences. EDC and BDC are very good in their strategy to provide certain products to SMEs, but I think they could do a better job in promoting each other. I think sometimes they work in their own space with their own focus, and i

International Trade committee  I would like to add to that. We've got our first project in India in 2015, but one of the things we have found in getting that established is that we were competing there with Israel and the Netherlands, whose federal governments are providing subsidies to them to go in and set u

International Trade committee  Mr. Chair and members, it wasn't until I started to piece together Cravo's exporting history that I understood all of the players who were part of the success with our expansion endeavour. It's a good story and I'm very pleased to have the opportunity today to share it with you.