It gets their foot on the employment ladder and helps get new ideas to small business which otherwise might hesitate. As you point out, all you do is hire contractors because they don't want the commitment that a long-term employment relationship suggests.
As I said, your concept of raising employer ambition and focusing on the employer side as opposed to the worker side is really an excellent approach.
Ms. Lennox of Startup Canada, your specific “ask” as we would put it, is for $15 million over three years. I just want to understand a bit more. You've done such great work with zero federal dollars. I'd like to know specifically how that money would be spent , $5 million a year, I presume. What would you target first?