I'm glad you remember the problems I mentioned regarding BDC. Across Canada during the last 12 months they have funded only 180 small manufacturing companies.
Whenever we talk of the manufacturing sector here, a lot of discussions take place around the auto, aerospace, and telecom sectors. There is no doubt they are important in the Canadian context. I feel we need to focus on advanced manufacturing, those sectors that will become more relevant in five, 10, and 15 years: additive manufacturing, robotics, or even the chemical industry. The chemical industry is supposed to be a world sector, but a lot of investments are taking place in the United States in the chemical industry. One of the emerging things for a place like Ottawa is the different C4ISR industries.
If your ministry can do some studies and publish this information for a lot of small companies and a lot of entrepreneurs regarding the potential that is available in these sectors, that will be quite helpful.