International Trade committee  The Canadian international innovation program is designed to support co-innovation between partner countries. We have science, tech and innovation agreements with, I think, 15 different partners. Each comes to the table with a certain amount of money, and we support research and

International Trade committee  I'm very happy to start, or did you mean to address that to Mairead?

International Trade committee  Thanks for the question on this. Japan occupies a very special place in my heart. It was my first posting, and I have very fond memories. I can see a lot of change, as a matter of fact, in how the relationship has progressed over the years, which is quite exciting. In terms of

International Trade committee  Yes, Madam Chair, I'm very happy to. The team Canada trade missions are well under way. We run trade missions regularly. We did two last year outside of the Indo-Pacific—we went to Chile and to the United Kingdom—but in terms of the Indo-Pacific—

International Trade committee  Do you mean where we stand on the capacity uplift?

International Trade committee  Yes, sir, I'm aware of the commitment. It is being run by the geographic branch, which is a different part of Global Affairs Canada. That said, I can say that some of the positions, particularly those that have to do with supporting clean tech, are under creation. There is a proc

International Trade committee  I do not. We could come back to you with that.

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, as a matter of fact, there was a separate budget decision that allocated additional funding to CanExport specifically to support IP protection in international markets. The team has been marketing that. We market our services to try to get more companies to access th

International Trade committee  Yes, I'm happy to say, Madam Chair, that we did receive and launch a whole strategy toward trade diversification back in 2018. We've been rolling that out, and we are fully staffed up, with some additional resources that we received to support Canadian business around the world t

International Trade committee  Just to clarify, I think it is by 2025, yes.

International Trade committee  Yes, sir, I believe that's where we are at.

International Trade committee  That is correct. It is with Agriculture Canada.

International Trade committee  No, sir. That is not a part of my—

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, I think that would fall to Public Services and Procurement Canada and also to ISED. They look at critical...and vulnerabilities in our supply chain.

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, the top outcomes I can speak to for the trade commissioner service by region are actually.... The Indo-Pacific is the number one region for outcomes of the services that we in the trade commissioner service provide to Canadian clients. After that, it is the U.S. and