Mr. Jean-René Halde at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On November 6th, 2014. See this statement in context.

November 6th, 2014 / 10:30 a.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Development Bank of Canada

We are expected to have a return, on average, over the whole portfolio.

At the present time the portfolio is about $19 billion. Young start-ups are a bit of a difficult environment to be in, so I don't expect much of a return on that particular part of the portfolio.

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