That's fine. I will continue, actually, on that.
The officials who are here are the same officials who I would presume probably served—I'm not sure in the case of all three—under a Liberal government previously, and who would serve under whatever future government there might be. In my role as a parliamentary secretary I have had the opportunity to benefit from the completely non-partisan expert advice of officials across Industry Canada.
I do have a little bit of a problem, particularly with Mr. Blanchette's assertions a few minutes ago, or just the tone of his questioning. They're here because we invited them here as a committee to answer the questions we have on this issue. It's an important issue that we want to get to the bottom of, and they're here as experts and conduct themselves professionally. I just object to the tone of the questioning.
That's okay. I mean, you disagree, but I'll move on to some questions.
In regard to slide number 6, I talked earlier about the numbers of things being sold online. We have the numbers referring to the number of companies with a web presence. It is actually surprising to look at that 70% number, with only 70% of SMEs having a web presence. I want to know a bit about what may be behind those numbers, so could you perhaps just share a little bit on that? Is there a typical profile, for example, of a company that doesn't have a website? Which ones out there in that 30% are the companies that don't have websites? There might be good reasons why they don't. I don't know.