International Trade committee  The quality of the dairy products is out of this world. I have a specific example. There's an island in the Azores where they play violins to their cows to improve the quality of the meat, of the milk. It's to that degree. I know that they stole the idea from the Japanese, but da

International Trade committee  Sorry, can you...?

International Trade committee  I think if partnerships are developed, they can actually learn from each other and work together collaboratively so that both sides can be successful with importing and exporting. I don't think it has to be one-sided. I think there are opportunities for market development on both

International Trade committee  Here, when I deal with Canadian-based businesses or persons of Canadian background, I notice that they get to a meeting, they're there to finish what they started, they start on time, and they get through it and get it done. The culture is very different there. Things take a lot

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I think we can both speak to that. I think dairy, absolutely.

International Trade committee  Icewine.

International Trade committee  I don't think that I've heard complaints from our membership in that regard. I don't know if you have, Mr. Correia.

International Trade committee  It might just be that it hasn't been experienced as a big issue amongst the people that we are crossing paths with. I'm not saying that there aren't challenges, but it's not something that has been brought to my attention.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  There are significant incentives to open up businesses in the Azores. The incentives provided by the European Union are absolutely incredible with regard to interest-free loans, the return on investment that is guaranteed, and the incentives to hire people and have their salaries

International Trade committee  Basically anyone can be a member if they are of Luso-Canadian descent, so they can be from different countries around the world. The majority of our members are business owners or professionals. We also allow non-Luso-Canadian people to join at a different level of membership. It

International Trade committee  We have a number of companies, as I mentioned—we tried to get them here today—that are exporting. For example, we have one company that's doing construction projects over in Portugal. With regard to whether we have provided direct assistance, anybody who contacts us for any type

International Trade committee  I'm going to repeat what I said before. We need to provide those opportunities for the face-to-face dialogue and enhance those opportunities. We have AICEP from Portugal that's based here. Pardon my ignorance, but I don't know if the Canadian government has an equivalent to AICEP

International Trade committee  I think that would be a huge resource for Canadian companies here. Like I said, everyone there is ready and willing to support, assist, and develop. Everybody who comes here is very anxious to enhance opportunities for trade, for networking, and for everything imaginable between