Ms. Olson, you mentioned how IRAP is helping some of your clients, but manufacturers of agricultural equipment in my riding have told me that the application process is very odious. In fact, in the proposal, they even have to account for the pencils they are going to use, and by the time they go through this exercise and then perhaps are rejected, and they have been rejected, there's been a lot of effort that they could have been putting into their businesses. Are the people you work with hiring consultants to do the application process? As they try to access this funding, how are they overcoming the wall the bureaucracy puts up?
On September 21st, 2016. See this statement in context.