Some 24,500 employees at Canadian companies have received support from SDTC. That's helped them become competitive on the world stage and generated high-paying, future-based jobs all across the country. That has absolutely been beneficial.
However, you certainly have to respect the Auditor General's report and make sure that it's compliant and makes sense. Like you, we're taxpayers, and we want to make sure that this is done effectively and efficiently.
It's helping in a difficult part. Commercializing innovative technologies isn't easy. It's highly risky. It's hard to get risk capital to go there. It's important that we have risk capital going there through effective means.