Managing the refugee crisis and redrawing EU trade strategy // Brussels, 14 October 2015

Minister Fast then led a 19-company trade mission to Rio de Janeiro and to Sªo Paulo with two objectives: firstly, to reaffirm the importance of this bilateral relationship, as highlighted in our Global Commerce Strategy and Americas Strategy, and secondly, to work on behalf of the Government of Canada and Canadian workers and companies to strengthen commercial relationships in the fast-growing markets of the Americas and Brazil specifically.

Mr. Hill: The Global Commerce Strategy, and then the Russian strategy that is one of the 13 sub-parts that flows from that, focuses on it as a key market and a market to develop.

However, where it fails is in developing an industrial strategy that follows the trade strategy that makes it possible for industries, be they agriculture, fisheries, electronics, service or financial, whatever they may be, to build up that industrial strategy so we in Canada can take advantage of these trade agreements and add jobs and value within our own country.

In closing, allow me to reiterate that the Canadian Meat Council fully supports the government's trade strategy.

Question No. 119 Mr. Robert Chisholm: With regard to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Canada's Global Commerce Strategy: (a) what programs will be introduced by the department in 2011-2012 to support the implementation of the strategy; (b) how much money will be allocated to support the implementation of the strategy; (c) what role will be played by regional economic development agencies to support the implementation of the strategy; and (d) what are the details of any analysis conducted for the government concerning key challenges and potential risks that may impact successful impleme ...[+++]ntation of the strategy?