Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm not a regular member of the committee, but I'm substituting today, and I have seen BDC when I was filling in at the international trade committee or previously at the industry committee. I have a couple of small questions, maybe not too important, but a couple of small questions of interest to me.
One of our notes talks about BDC having more than 27,000 Canadian entrepreneurs as clients, 6,000 of whom are exporters, accounting for nearly 40% of BDC's portfolio. I guess what I'm curious about is that BDC is one entity working with the Government of Canada. We have the Department of Foreign Affairs and other entities to help with export development. My question is, how integrated are the government's various services between DFAIT, BDC, and so forth, to help Canadian exporters, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises? Are the various services integrated? If they are, how effective is the work? If they aren't, why aren't they, and would it be effective if we had a more integrated approach between various government departments and crown corporations?
Does the question make sense?