Harper Government Launches New International Trade Plan
Creating new jobs and opportunities for Canadians through trade is the priority as Canada focuses its efforts on the specific markets and sectors that hold the greatest potential
(firmenpresse) - OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 11/27/13 -- The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, today released a new trade plan that reflects the changing global landscape, focuses on core Canadian strengths, aligns Canada's trade, development and foreign policy tools to advance commercial interests around the world, and sets concrete targets to grow the presence of Canada's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. The comprehensive report, entitled the Global Markets Action Plan: The Blueprint for Creating Jobs and Opportunities for Canadians Through Trade, was announced during a keynote speech Minister Fast delivered to the Economic Club of Canada in Ottawa.
"Under the Global Markets Action Plan, our government will concentrate its efforts on markets that hold the greatest promise for Canadian business-and focus on core commercial objectives within those markets," said Minister Fast. "We will do this through vigorous and continual trade promotion, supported by ambitious trade policy. In short, this new plan will play to our strengths and ensure that all of Canada's diplomatic assets are harnessed to support the pursuit of commercial success by Canadian companies and investors. We fully understand that when our businesses succeed abroad, all Canadians benefit from the jobs and opportunities that are created at home."
The plan will target three distinct types of markets:
Key elements of the Global Markets Action Plan include:
Five-Year Target to Increase SMEs Exporting to Emerging Markets
The Global Markets Action Plan will also set out how the government will work with Canada's critical SME sector to grow the sector's footprint in emerging markets to meet the following targets:
Source: Export Development Canada Economics.
"In a fiercely competitive global economy, Canada cannot be complacent," said Minister Fast. "We must be more aggressive and effective than the intense competition we face as we advance Canada's commercial interests in key global markets. This new plan represents a sea change in the way Canada's diplomatic assets are deployed around the world, and in so doing, we are ensuring that the commercial success of Canadian firms and investors is entrenched as one of our core foreign policy objectives."
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A backgrounder follows.
Backgrounder - Global Markets Action Plan Consultations
As part of Economic Action Plan 2012, the Government of Canada announced a commitment to refresh the 2007 Global Commerce Strategy (GCS) following extensive consultations with Canada's key trade and investment stakeholders, including leaders from the private sector and academia, provincial and territorial partners, and representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises. Economic Action Plan 2012 promised to continue to align Canada's trade and investment objectives with specific high-growth priority markets.
In May 2012, the Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, launched a blue-chip, 10-member to help update the GCS. The panel served as a sounding board to provide advice with a view to ensuring that the next phase of the GCS maximized economic opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses in key emerging and established markets. During extensive consultations, five streams of activities informed the establishment of priority markets in order to ensure Canadian businesses had the tools and support needed:
1. Access to key global markets
2. Access to capital
3. Access to technology
4. Access to support services
5. Access to talent
Discussions also focused on key government activities that could help Canadian businesses become more successful in priority markets. The advisory panel provided invaluable insight directly to Minister Fast on the positive role the Government of Canada can play in helping Canadian companies create jobs and opportunities for Canadians and their families.
On August 14, 2012, Minister Fast launched on the refreshed GCS. Sessions were held in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver. The cross-country consultations involved some 400 business and industry stakeholders. The consultations with Canadians helped inform the Global Markets Action Plan (GMAP).
Furthermore, under the plan, three-year market access plans for each priority market will be developed and implemented. These plans will be updated regularly and will mobilize partnerships across governments and the private sector to make the pursuit of Canada's commercial interests in identified markets a truly coordinated national effort. Since the end of the consultations, the Government of Canada further improved the GMAP to ensure it reflects current and emerging global economic trends.
Contacts:
Rudy Husny
Press Secretary
Office of the Honourable Ed Fast
Minister of International Trade
613-992-7332
Media Relations Office
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
613-995-1874
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