Let's take the numbers. Out of 1,800 start-ups you financed in the last 10 years, that is an average of 180 per year. Right now you have 6,500 manufacturing clients, right? When you look at that, the number is still quite small.
As we know, for us to have one big manufacturing company, we need to have hundreds and hundreds of small manufacturing companies. We have talked to other regional economic development agencies from FedDev here to Western Economic Diversification there to the Atlantic one. Almost all of them point towards you as the source of funding for manufacturing start-ups.
However, here you are. Your funding is very small. How can we promote advanced manufacturing if you're not willing to take risk alongside the entrepreneur?