Interestingly, on my last visit to our office up in Vaughan, I was hot on your heels. As I was entering the building, your colleague from downtown was leaving. They really appreciated your interest and your time. So thank you for popping by to visit us.
Your question relates to things that we see that are different across the regions and that could be worth reflecting on and learning from. I think the biggest differences we see across the regions do relate to two things. One is that with respect to our traditional lending business, we do find that Quebec is noteworthy in the sense that it has a lot of provincially focused sources of capital, be it Investissement Québec, La Caisse de dépôt, Fonds de solidarité, or others, all of which play a very useful role with respect to ensuring that liquidity is available within the province. We work closely with them.
The biggest differences we see regionally are more around venture capital and the different levels of maturity of the local ecosystems, if you don't mind my using that word again, across the regions. I think there's a lot we can all learn from those that are most successful in Vancouver or Kitchener-Waterloo most notably, and from some of the lessons learned. Canada can't have 85 or 90 successful incubators and accelerators to support tech firms. We just don't have the scale. We encourage folks to be quite thoughtful when picking spots, to make sure we have the right ingredients to make these work. I think we can learn a lot of good things from places like the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Vancouver, Montreal, and so on that we should be trying to learn from and extending to other regional areas.