The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, ... announced that he will lead a trade mission to Australia and the Philippines to advance the interests of Canadian companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...

In the Philippines, Minister Fast will promote Canada’s interests in the agriculture, defence, information and communications technologies and sustainable technologies sectors. He will also highlight the important and growing people-to-people ties that exist between Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, of which the Philippines is a member...

This has been excerpted from 17 July 2014 news release by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, and is available in its entirety at http://www.international.gc.ca/media/comm/news-communiques/2014/07/22a.aspx?lang=eng.