Thank you.
Mr. McArthur, in relation to that, I just joined this committee last month, but I was a member of this committee way back in 2015 and 2016. The only other member who is still here in this committee is Mr. Brian Masse.
During that time, we once had the CEO of BDC—Business Development Canada—here and I asked a very simple question. They were talking about billion-dollar portfolios for various sectors of the economy, etc.
My question was very simple. I asked the BDC team then how many manufacturing start-ups it had financed during that last year. They didn't have the answer. They had to go back and search. Out of the billions of dollars of portfolio they had, they came with an answer. If I remember correctly, it was just about $15 million in new manufacturing start-ups.
There is a gap here. I'm sure it's the same with clean tech.
You were mentioning the gaps in the ecosystem. I'll give you some more time to elaborate on that.
Where is the gap and what needs to be done? Is SDTC a vehicle through which that gap can be addressed?