International Trade committee  Thank you, Kyle. I appreciate it. York Region is a thriving community. As I said, it's a community of 1.2 million and growing. There are more than 600,000 jobs created. It is the jewel, I think, in the Ontario ecosystem as part of a larger innovation ecosystem. We have companies

International Trade committee  That's a great question. I know from the 2,000 SMEs we've worked with, part of it is that entrepreneurs by nature aren't going to go to a government website. Even in my own experience of scaling my company, I didn't know anything about the trade agreements. There needs to be an

International Trade committee  Absolutely. I'll answer your first two questions first. Regarding ForaHealthyMe, I think for many years the founder and the company tried to navigate the Ontario-based health care system; however, because of different and pretty strict procurement rules in terms of the types of

International Trade committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the invitation to speak with you today. My name is Melissa Chee, and I am the president and CEO of ventureLAB. I have over 20 years of experience in large Canadian-founded multinationals, and have also scaled a technology compa