Thank you for your question, Mr. Lemire.
We have often had the opportunity to discuss things together in recent weeks, and, of course, I have heard the arguments in favour of increasing the funding for the SADCs in Quebec. I know that my colleague Marie-Claude Bibeau has also been working very hard on the issue. We were all in favour of increasing funding to the SADCs.
Quite clearly, the objective of the SADCs is to be present in rural communities and to help entrepreneurs and businesses that need access to liquidity and funding. So we are going to increase their funding in a major way. I have had the opportunity to speak with Hélène Deslauriers, the president of the SADCs, and she is very happy with the new funding.
Essentially, these will be loans that come with conditions similar to the ones in bank financing, which is to say a loan of $40,000 plus salary subsidies. However, we really wanted to cover the companies that have difficulty meeting the eligibility criteria. We have therefore hugely expanded the social net. Now, we are tightening the mesh in the net so that no one is excluded. That's our objective. Money that can be sent to the companies will be available very soon.