Under the start-up visa program we've had about 420 principal applicants, who have launched about 250 new businesses over the past five years. There are currently about 29 business incubators, 23 venture capital funds and nine angel investor groups in the program.
I don't have the breakdown on the high-tech sector specifically, but anecdotally we're certainly hearing that's a big receptor for that.
On the evaluations so far, we're finding that the entrepreneurs coming through are younger, better educated and proficient in English or French, and some of them are settling in some of the smaller regions, so that's the stickiness factor. We've had 18% in Atlantic Canada.
It's a fairly small program but it seems to be having quite a big impact.