Home topics small-business-resources growth-import-export Growth | Import | Export Growth | Import | Export Mounting a Canadian export campaign Adeline Teoh August 27, 2008 More than a gateway to the USA, the Canadian market is great in itself. Discover how easily Australian exporters can translate products and services into exports to Canada . If exporting to Canada , you’ll find the similarities between Canada and Australia can be startling. Both countries host a relatively small population on a large landmass, and both boast a wealth of natural resources in the form of minerals in the ground and wilderness on the surface. Beyond physical similarities, however, Canada and Australia also share comparable social and political values and both, as sparsely populated developed countries, have entered global supply chains with the knowledge that the domestic market alone isn’t big enough for growing exporters. “Our markets are small in themselves. The company that wants to get to a certain scale in Australia or Canada has to look at exporting or it’s going to stay small; you can in the US but you can’t in our two countries,” remarks Rick McElrea, consul and senior investment advisor at the Sydney Canadian Consulate. “I’ve been all over the world and I don’t think there are two countries more like each other than Australia and Canada. The United States and Canada are not as similar as Australia and Canada.” McElrea believes Australia is a good connection for Canadian companies to expand into Asia and Australian companies should