Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, madam, gentlemen. I would particularly like to greet Mr. Simoneau, whom I got to know in Sherbrooke when he ran the Société Innovatech du sud du Québec. I would like to congratulate him for the work he has done.
I will be brief, because we are unfortunately short on time.
You have 27,000 clients, of whom 6,000 are exporters and make up 40% of your portfolio of $10 billion, I believe. Among your exporter clients, there are categories, as you say. You mentioned innovation, knowledge, research and development. I do not think that I am wrong in saying that this is the foundation we need if we want to be competitive on a global scale.
But this takes two business directions; either companies must develop a product, a niche, something special, that therefore becomes easily exportable around the world, or they have to increase productivity tremendously in order to be as globally competitive.
How does this break down in your portfolio among the companies with whom you work? Perhaps there are others, but those are the ones that I can see most clearly.