Thank you for your question.
The government has made a few investments, through a few different approaches, to help businesses get information and then work towards accessing programs.
I would draw your attention to the Canada Business app, which is an application designed for small business owners to help them navigate through the different government programs and services that are in place.
There's also the Canada business benefits finder, which is a website that organizations and businesses can go to and enter some key details about their business and the types of supports they're looking for. Then they will get the roster of supports that will be provided to them. Those supports are not only from ISED but from across the federal government. We also work with provinces and territories to include those services.
I would mention that the Canada Business app consolidates information on licensing and requirements from across jurisdictions in one place, so it's a great tool that anyone opening a new business can access to get information.
The last piece is that in the design of calls for proposals, depending on the target audience and when we go down closer to smaller businesses on our main streets, we look at the criteria and how we develop our guides and our application forms. That's to find ways to make them as common sense and clear as we can and help those small businesses that, as you say, do not have the resources and time to commit to doing that among all of the other challenges and problem-solving that they're doing daily.