Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the team from BDC for being here. I met with Kirk Irving in Guelph last week and we discussed the work of BDC, particularly around manufacturing. He provided me with a slide deck, an overview of BDC for parliamentarians, that was put together in summer 2016. If you could submit that for our clerk, I think that would be very helpful for our study. It talks about manufacturing being 23% of your financing portfolio.
We discussed in particular the smaller manufacturers that are just in the early stages, the one-million-dollar to $1.5-million ones, and the ones that are looking for loans of up to $250,000—something that the banks are not interested in. The banks are regulated differently from BDC. You're a stand-alone organization. In our conversation, we discussed the opportunity for a matching program that the federal government might be able to look at. We're preparing for our budget right now. During the credit crisis, there was a similar program. Do you have any details about how matching used to work, and how we might look at that going forward to help the small start-ups?