There's a whole range of federal government programs and certainly a range of tools that exist. Also, as everyone knows, for SMEs, there are Crown corporations like EDC and BDC that also have a range of programs.
The point that I was really raising at the heart of the matter, as we think about transition financing, climate policy and this balanced approach for economy, environment and society, is that SMEs don't get left behind. In aggregate, their footprint matters. In aggregate, from a GDP standpoint, they really matter.
As we look at what other countries are doing, in particular for SMEs—their institutions, their tool kits, their digitization—we see that these are important considerations for us. We think about policy, policy development, policy implementation, and I was homing in on experimenting. What are other countries doing? What lessons learned are there for Canada? We don't need to wait. There's a lot that we can do.
Tangentially, I also mentioned the SME Finance Forum, which is part of the World Bank. They've done tremendous global studies on access to finance, access to markets, access to skills, and enabling environments. There are very concrete ideas on what can be done now.
There's an opportunity for the federal government and for provincial governments to work cohesively on this SME challenge, and it is material.
