What we've found is that Canadian SMEs—as we've said before—export relatively less than our peers in the OECD. We're not as export-oriented, so there's an opportunity just from a benchmark point of view. There are some very good programs in place that the BDC is doing, but it doesn't get at enough of the population of SMEs, and it's fairly costly for them to be able to do it. They're making an investment. I think we should all be happy with what they're doing. It's not sustainable for them to be able to scale up in the way they do.
What we're saying is not all SMEs are equal in the sense of their potential. Some have higher potential because of a particular set of skills or capabilities, or because of where they're positioned in an industry business system or value chain. They may have more of an opportunity, and we should focus on those first. There has to be some prioritization of the hundreds of thousands of SMEs we have. We're saying, let's have a more targeted, segmented approach and then encourage the BDC and others to continue to do that.
We can also learn from these other programs I mentioned in Malaysia and New Zealand, where people in similar environments have been able to see very big results; they can then pay for themselves as opposed to it being a government cost.