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Canada’s Export Diversification Strategy facilitates efforts to help Canadian businesses reduce the uncertainties and potential disruptions they may face in international trade, as well as help them seize the opportunities created by diversifying to new global markets.

Only about 15% of Conviron’s revenue comes from sales in Canada. The balance comes from selling equipment in almost 100 countries.

Over the years, Canada has consistently ranked poorly relative to its peers on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) foreign direct investment (FDI) regulatory restrictiveness index, a metric used to capture countries’ openness to FDI. The most recent data for 2020 shows that Canada’s index is over three times higher than the average of its G7 peers.

Canada has a large, diverse, and highly educated immigrant population that makes an important contribution to the Canadian economy. This study examines the contribution of immigrant-led businesses to Canada’s export performance and study find that Canada’s foreign-born population is more outward-looking than is the Canadian-born population. Businesses led by immigrants, despite being smaller on average, are much more likely to export and derive a greater share of revenue from exporting. They also tend to export further afield; relying less on the United States as a market and exporting to more diverse markets. It is therefore beneficial to the growth and diversification of Canadian exports that the number of immigrant-led exporters has grown at twice the rate of that of Canadian-born exporters. Immigrant-women-led business are of particular note, exporting at a far higher rate than business led by Canadian-born-women. This study reaffirms the important contribution of immigrant-led business to the Canadian economy and to Canada’s international trade performance.

Find out how exports need to grow to achieve Canada's objective.

In this article, you will learn how locally engaged staff play a crucial role in supporting the implementation Global Affairs Canada’s mandate of foreign policy, trade, international development and consular services.

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The Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development appeared before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on their study on the Canadian Foreign service and elements of the Foreign Policy Machinery within Global Affairs Canada on December 15, 2022.

Jase's Working Holiday experience in Canada expanded his idea of the perfect work/life balance.