Export Development Canada, or EDC, is Canada's export credit agency, a government institution that offers financial services to Canadian exporters and investors interested in doing business abroad. They provide financing, insurance and bonding services, as well as foreign expertise in more than 200 markets worldwide and last year, facilitated $24.7 billion of Canadian trade in emerging markets.
Coincidentally that is one of the hottest emerging markets these days in Brazil as well. With financial and political instability taking over other international markets, South America – especially...