Okay, thank you.
When I read your report, it seems to me that there are almost two classes of small SMEs, when you profile them. It seems there are those that are able to successfully contract with the government and maybe those that aren't. The ones that are able to seem to share some characteristics. They are older and larger, concentrated within the knowledge-based and technology-based industries, and more likely to be male-owned than female-owned.
By the same token, the SME suppliers are more likely to anticipate growth, more than twice as likely to export, more likely to engage in interprovincial trade, more likely to anticipate future exports, and more likely to innovate.
My statistics professor always told me that correlation isn't causation, so which comes first? Is there a causation here or is it simply a correlation that you're drawing out for the reader?