The programs I would point to would be the loan guarantee from Export Development Canada and the BCAP co-lend facility from the Business Development Bank of Canada. Each of those facilities provides pretty much 80% coverage on credit that a financial institution would extend to an operation such as that one.
In the case of the EDC program, that takes the form of a guarantee on 80% of incremental credit that a financial institution would extend. In the case of the BDC program, it is 80¢ that BDC will lend for every 20¢ that the financial institution lends.
The way to get those programs is to go through the existing financial institution with which the business has a business banking relationship. Those facilities make it easier for the financial institutions to continue to extend credit to businesses in situations such as the one you describe.