Thank you very much for your presentation. On a number of occasions in the past, the BDC has come up with innovative means of supplementing funding in my region, amongst others.
Your brief states that, last year, your return on common equity was 8.5% and that you paid the government a $21.5 million dividend. I imagine that it will be more difficult to achieve such results in fiscal 2008.
In your daily work, are you noticing the effect of the slowdown in the manufacturing sector in Quebec and Ontario, particularly in Quebec? How is it affecting your clients?