You can consider my question to be a cry for help and an invitation to think about how the BDC's mandate could be expanded to include agriculture, which, my goodness, could certainly use it where I'm from.
The Bloc Québécois has proposed regionalizing regional development programs, in particular by transferring money intended for the regions to funds to support territorial innovation. I think programs designed by and for the regions are fundamental.
Would you be open to the idea of creating funds that would be made available to the regions for which there would be local collaboration? In a word, the BDC is certainly involved in this. It would mean having decision-making loci where priorities would be set.
For instance, a region like Abitibi-Témiscamingue could use these funds to finance its slaughterhouse project, which is essential to the development of the region.