Thank you so much for that question.
I would start by saying that obviously there is a lot of information out there, so it's always a challenge for SMEs to find and access what they need. We have tried to put information into locations where they are most likely to find it, and to find it all together.
One of the opportunities for businesses is to go to the Canada business network site, or canadabusiness.ca, which is a one-stop comprehensive directory of information for services that are provided by federal, provincial, and territorial governments—including municipal governments, actually—to help businesses find the programs and the regulatory things that they need to find in the various sectors in which they operate. It also contains information about financing grants and starting and growing a business.
If you decide that you want to follow that service on Twitter, it is @canadabusiness, and I would encourage you to do that since it does have 95,000 Twitter followers from businesses in the community today. It is a well-followed site.
We also have BizPaL, which again is intended to blur all the lines of government to provide each sector with the various business licences and regulations they need to know about when they're starting and growing a business. Also, the National Research Council's industrial research assistance program, IRAP, has the concierge service, which is intended to hold hands with entrepreneurs to help them walk through the various programs that are available to them.
There are 230 federal programs available to businesses and they're offered by 30 different departments, so this is not an inconsequential or insignificant question that you're asking about how we actually get the information to entrepreneurs who need it.
There are other services. I actually would like to hand the baton to Monsieur Bergeron, because the BDC also has some ways of helping entrepreneurs navigate through these mazes.