We are different, because BDC has always taken a long-term view on all of our investments. We currently have about 150 technology companies. I'm talking about high-tech companies—in biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology. These are companies that represent the future of Canada. They're at risk, all 150 of them, because there is no venture capital available in Canada. We are going to try to support the best ones. They're not all equal. We're going to continue to invest and try to help the best quarter of them, the best 30% or 40%, through this rough time. At the moment, there's no money available in the marketplace. The longest investment that we've had in this portfolio is well over ten years. We've been a shareholder of that company for over 10 years. Actually, I think it's closer to 12. We take position and wait for the right opportunity for them to become wholly private or public companies. Most of them become public eventually.
There are a lot of successful companies that the BDC has built over the years. If you go back into the history of BDC, Rogers Communications got its first loan with BDC. Ballard and Tundra were created by BDC. I can name many of these companies. Today, what breaks my heart is that if we let go of all the technology companies into which venture capital has been invested, once this recession is over you will have to start the process of innovation again in Canada, and you will have lost an entire decade.