Thank you.
The last item I want to discuss is something I was able to discuss with your organization behind closed doors. I brought it up in this committee before, and now I want to go back and go over it a little bit.
I've had some concern in the past, as I look at the goal of BDC, when it comes to their entrance into the marketplace. My belief is that BDC is there to get the companies they're supporting, whom they're providing capital to, to the point at which the marketplace enters the discussion. One point brought forward was that you have to push up against where the charter banks and other lenders are in order, first, to push them to do better, but second, because you don't want to have a space in between.
Have any studies been done with the Competition Bureau to determine where we can do better in terms of getting out of that space, to leave it to the marketplace? Is that something you would consider doing?
I even heard last week of specific examples in which BDC is competing directly with lenders. Yes, you work very collaboratively with institutions, but there are also those times when the market can take over and BDC is still lending the money. I'd rather take those millions of dollars and put them into a company that doesn't have access to capital from banks.