Your venture capital figures are quite interesting.In fact, I am going to quote your brief on this. It contains the following paragraph, and I quote:
Over the past year or so, financing activity in venture markets has collapsed to near-record levels. The amount of capital raised by TSX-V companies over the past three years has fallen 63% from $10.1 billion in 2011 to $3.8 billion in 2013. Over the same period, new listings on venture exchange have declined by near two-thirds to 76 listings in 2013.
These declines seem quite significant, both as regards capital and as regards new listings.