The GoC Launches "Go Global" Workshops for SMEs to Boost Canadian Exports

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/09/2014 - 09:21

The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, ...kicked off the first in a series of export workshops in communities across Canada. These workshops will provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the tools and practical information they need to take advantage of international business opportunities to export...

By bringing together the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Export Development Canada, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the Canadian Commercial Corporation, these export workshops,...provide a one-stop shop for information and tools available for SMEs exploring opportunities abroad.

Following new trade agreements with the European Union and South Korea, Canadian businesses will soon benefit from preferential access to more than half of the entire global marketplace.

The next export workshops will be held in Mississauga, Ontario, on Friday, November 28 and Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Friday, December 5, 2014.

Quick Facts

  • ...There are more than one million SMEs across Canada, with 41,000 currently exporting...

This has been excerpted from 21 November 2014 news release by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada.