There are absolute regional differences. As members of Parliament, I am sure you see them on the ground, whether it's in Atlantic Canada, in supporting succession of our senior entrepreneurs and getting the next generation of entrepreneurs into their businesses, trained and qualified to actually take hold of their businesses, to opportunities to go down to Silicon Valley with the C100, and how we retain our entrepreneurs to create anchors here at home. So from coast to coast there are certainly different barriers.
There are market barriers for our northern communities. We hear all the time about broadband access and how that disadvantages some of our northern tech entrepreneurs, and the importance of having consistent and reliable transport down to major cities for investment meetings. Our infrastructure impacts the success of our entrepreneurs. The success of Startup Canada is the result of Canada being in such a great position globally, as we are with all the infrastructure we have.
We've just invested $100 million in the CAIP fund in order to support accelerator and incubator programs across Canada. That's going to make a massive difference.
Entrepreneurs—consistently across the board and this is why we're focusing here—continue to have difficulty navigating the ecosystem, so we need to make it easier to plug in.