That's a very good point. Maybe what I'll do is draw your attention to how we're helping businesses, including those in Quebec, to take advantage of those international markets. It's not like they're going to go to Vietnam all of a sudden, for example.
We have this really great program called the trade accelerator program. Almost 1,000 businesses have gone through that. Some 30% of those businesses have seen actual increases in export revenue, and 18% have seen additional revenue growth to their bottom line. They've grown jobs. Half of the exports went to the United States, but they also exported to Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the rest of Asia.
There are some other things that are really great about this. Women businesses make up 39%. Young entrepreneurs make up 24%. Visible minority businesses make up 19%. Indigenous businesses make up 4%. When we say that in 2021, GDP in Canada grew by 4.6%, that's because Canada is a trading nation. Trade makes one out of six jobs and two-thirds of our economy.
Helping them grow is absolutely essential. I have numbers—at least initial numbers—that tell us we're on the right track.