Often we make the difference. Often the owners or managers of SMEs are telling us that we are the first financial support they have received. The others are coming after.
Often CED-Q in Quebec's regions shows the way to other partners like Investissement Québec and some others, and we really make a difference in smaller or a bit larger businesses. We have success all across the province.
We were speaking about the mining industry, which continues to grow. We have supported many projects in Abitibi to help small enterprises develop certain technologies that are used worldwide now. Technologies used in our regions are offered all across the world. Some are working in South Africa, in South America, and everywhere, and we are successful.
With 4,000 projects, we can give you a lot of examples, but first of all we need a promoter. If we don't have somebody or an organization to propose a project, we are unable to support them. We have changed the way we support them too. We are working more on technological transfers in order to support our economy specifically in different regions, so it's not the same economy and it's a different region.
In my own riding we depend 70% on forest industry products, but my region depends a lot on the aluminum industry. We're still very supportive of that. We support SMEs all across the region to develop the way they use aluminum.