International Trade committee  Can I can add something to the question of the one-stop shop? I thank my colleague from BDC. They're an excellent point of contact. I'd like to share with the committee something that we have been making a diligent effort to do over the past number of years. We're making sure,

International Trade committee  I can start. It's probably a truism in a lot of things, but repeat, repeat, repeat. You can never over-communicate, both in terms of rapidity through one channel but using a multiplicity of channels to be able to do so. When we talk about direct reach-out to companies, we're ta

International Trade committee  The simple answer is yes.

International Trade committee  Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members, for inviting me to appear today. My name is David Bhamjee, and I'm here in my capacity as the Vice-President of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Export Development Canada. It is a pleasure to be here toda

International Trade committee  My understanding is that for 2018 the priority is going to be some select representations in the United States. I'll also just make the point that, with the exception of Singapore, wherever EDC is located outside of Canada it's a co-location with the Canadian embassy staff, so w

International Trade committee  It's $250 million.

International Trade committee  Just to add, I think part of the question around export readiness...and when you have that person across from you who is excited or scared about something, your job is to better understand not just what EDC can do, but the breadth of players available to them. Part of what we do

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. Maybe I'll just add to what Ms. Irman said. It's not necessarily binary, meaning that a Canadian company would look to work with a private sector financial institution or EDC, particularly when you're talking about the SME base, where we would actuall

International Trade committee  In the SME base, the vast majority of what EDC would do would either be guarantees to Canadian banks to allow them to lend more to Canadian companies, or credit insurance—when you have a Canadian company looking to either expand with an existing buyer or take on new risk with a n