Ensure alignment between Canada's export and innovation strategies.

What success looks like

More Canadian businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, export their products and services.

Government's narrative on progress

The government launched a new Innovation and Skills Plan to: retrain Canadians for the jobs of today and tomorrow; drive investments in six high-growth sectors of the Canadian economy; and to make it easier for businesses and innovators to access the support they need. The government will ensure that the upcoming Export Diversification Strategy and the Innovation and Skills Plan will be aligned to: focus on free trade agreement promotion, support exporters and grow global firms by Canadian innovators and entrepreneurs, strengthen investment attraction, and support a progressive trade policy agenda.

Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.