Status of Women committee  Sure. I'll try to be brief. My apologies if I misspoke, but I think what I said was that there are fewer women in computer science today than there were in 1989, and only marginally more in engineering. There has been an increase of women in STEM, but not at the level that we might have expected.

Status of Women committee  I'll send some written comments, but there are several aspects that I would like to focus on. First, targets, transparency and accountability are absolutely fundamental. Look at the Investing in Women Code in the U.K. Second, there are models of innovative practices. I am not sure if anyone from Coralus has testified, but $5 million created 250 jobs with interest-free loans and a 100% repayment rate.

Status of Women committee  You go first.

Status of Women committee  It's eharmony for women entrepreneurs.

Status of Women committee  Someone else can ask me more. I do think that we need a combination of face-to-face and electronic connections. Someone may be in Hamilton and doing something that is relevant to someone in Cape Breton, and we need better ways to link those things together. I think COVID helped with the shift to digitization, but we haven't exploited it to the extent we could.

Status of Women committee  That's a really important question. Just to clarify, the knowledge hub is focused on linking ecosystem players. For example, our focus is on connecting the women's enterprise organizations of Canada, financial institutions and so on. We don't actually provide the direct services to the entrepreneurs.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I am really pleased to be here today and very grateful to have an opportunity to speak. My name is Wendy Cukier, and I am a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Toronto Metropolitan University. I have also founded several start-ups, as well as social ventures.