International Trade committee  Thirty-six per cent of the attendees at our Canadian export challenge in 2018 were newcomers to Canada, immigrants. Even though I thought that was not a bad statistic, I hope we're more successful than we were last year in attracting an even greater percentage this year. If I ca

International Trade committee  That's exactly right. It's mentorship on the one side, digital; and it's professional development on the other side, learning what you need to learn in order to succeed. And that's the whole focus of it.

International Trade committee  First, on principle, there are always things that can be done to streamline and make more efficient one's operations—period, full stop. Second is I think we have to be sensitive to the different audiences that we're targeting. We have an audience, as I may have mentioned earlie

International Trade committee  That's right. You have to throw the spaghetti at the wall and hope to hit different parts of the wall with your spaghetti.

International Trade committee  Again, they're micro grants and they're quite small. They're very limited in number. What we usually do is arrange a partnership deal with a major private sector partner that will provide the capital for that. We've done that with people in the financial sector. Another one is co

International Trade committee  I will pass on your kind regards.

International Trade committee  We have a very small program of micro grants that are disbursed out of two networks. One is a maximum of $2,500; the other is $5,000. It's a very small proportion of what we do. I come back to my earlier comments about our big assets. Number one is that we have these start-up co

International Trade committee  Several comments come to mind, in which I hope capture, without being overly long, some of the prior questions by your colleagues. I think it's time for all hands on deck. The world's getting very dangerous. Barriers are going up. Bad things are starting to happen internationally

International Trade committee  —at a higher level. Ours are really small and they're just grants. There are other differences as well. As my presence attests, our membership goes beyond the 18 to 39 group—well beyond the 18 to 39 group—so there's room for many parties in this ecosystem to do their bit. The in

International Trade committee  Thank you. I'll pass that on.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me begin by introducing myself and presenting the regrets of our co-founder, Victoria Lennox. She would have loved to have been here but, unfortunately, is very ill. She has asked me to step in, in her place. I'm the interim CEO of Startu