Actually, people should be wondering why your department's operating budget is going up while investments in small and medium-sized businesses are going down. That is the question. Canada's productivity is among the worst in the world right now. The country has a real productivity problem, and the economic development agencies across Canada, including in Quebec, help businesses boost their productivity.
In spite of that, you're cutting the funding of those agencies by half a billion dollars, and Quebec's economic development agency is losing $168 million of that, so I'm trying to understand the logic. You are at the helm of the department that is supposed to support small and medium-sized businesses when it comes to innovation and technology, especially smaller ones that are growing and looking to expand. As a result of these cuts, the economic development agencies won't be able to afford to help those businesses in order to boost Canada's productivity.