As I said, the trade services we have are phenomenal. They are very helpful; they are world class. We have a pretty good presence in India. More is always better and welcome, but we have a fairly good.... All sectors are represented there too; there are no complaints, no problems....
I'll just throw out an idea. The trade services are serving the large and small companies in the same way. Small companies require hand-holding and more time to get to the same end. They need more communication because they can't afford to fly to India every other day. So maybe it is time to look at having an SME-focused trade commission service, whether here or in India, or wherever. But maybe that's what the small and medium-sized enterprises need, because it serves two purposes. That's the area where we've been most successful in. After CEPA and FIPA, probably we'll get into bigger things but that's where we've been most successful. Why not get more SMEs in and why not help more business in that area, which is not regulated? It will help that way.
Secondly, deals eventually happen because of interdependence. I think the more we get into India and the more Indians come here, the more we will have some kind of a relationship building, which will take us very far. That is just a suggestion, and I feel that it's probably one way of doing it.
The other success I can tell you about, in which the federal government is also involved, is with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. It manages the export market access fund, or EMA fund, which the federal government has given some money to. That fund gives up to $30,000 to any company that qualifies, and they have to spend an equal amount of money to explore a market or to do a show in a new market, and things like that.
The exports under that program were $130 million, and so far the chamber has spent about $13 million. The return is 20 times the investment. If there were a way that we could have more small and medium-sized enterprises access funds like that and directly tabulate how they were performing—because they are supposed to submit their export documents for us to keep track of—I think those kinds of things would help the SMEs enter the market a little more carefully and easily.