Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here. They were very interesting presentations.
I'm particularly interested in your comments on fairness. Of course, there are a number of ways in which fairness could be questioned. And to my question, everybody is welcome to respond--including you, Madam Scarborough, if you feel so inclined.
So there are a couple of ways. For example, we could build criteria into a program or within a process that disadvantages automatically a certain size of business. Also, we could talk about how small businesses are defined within OSME, for example. They've chosen, rightly or wrongly, to define them as 500 employees or less. But I notice that Export Development Canada, on the other hand--I can understand why there's so much confusion, as there doesn't seem to be the same definition of small business across the board--uses the definition of $20 million or less of business.
I'm wondering if you have an opinion on what would be a fair definition, or a fairer definition, of a small or medium-sized business.