Canada’s strong economic performance relative to many of its mature G20 peers has benefited its entrepreneurs, and the Government has sought to offer additional help through a raft of policy initiatives and business-friendly tax and regulatory systems. Still, entrepreneurs complain that the support does not always get through and access to funding remains a potential barrier to growth. The country remains a world-class entrepreneurial environment, but stronger mentoring and increased efforts to bolster research and development (R&D) activity would help.
Strengths
• The Government has been highly supportive of entrepreneurs, providing regulatory and tax regimes that have …show more content…
Do Canadians strike an effective balance between private sector pursuit of global business and public sector support and enablement?
The sector of goods trade employs approximately 1 in every 5 Canadian.
Canadian government strives to create policies with the intentions of facilitating cooperation and collaboration between the private and public sectors so that it may achieve the agenda that is common between them, an effective business environment. With the various free trade agreements and cross border trade treaties signed by the Canadian government over the years, it is evident that the government wants to take every possible step to provide its domestic businesses effective global trade opportunities as well. These policies are important as they allow growth of all companies irrespective of their size and promote openness. In the effort of harmonizing the policies adopted by them, the Canadian government tries to engage itself with other governments and both external and internal institutions. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Ed Fast recently released Canada’s first International Education Strategy and oversees free trade negotiations with Japan, India and the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries, among others. Also, Canada recently concluded a historic agreement with the European Union, and a free trade agreement with South Korea, …show more content…
Has stated by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, since 2006 Canada has concluded free trade agreements with 44 countries. One of the latest free trade agreements is Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP has 12 participating counties that represents a combined market of 800 million people and $28.5 trillion GDP, this will have a significant impact on Canadian exporters specially in the case of Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam, the countries that Canada faces high tariffs and no prior access to. The government also provides information to Multinational Enterprises for promoting awareness of the OECD guidelines through National Contact