Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, and thank you to all the witnesses.
For my first question, I need a bit of clarification. I'm not the regular member of the committee; I'm subbing in for my colleague today. It relates to the first question that was asked today.
Small businesses have up to 100 employees and medium businesses have up to 500 employees. Now this is a bit confusing for me. Why is it based on the number of employees? I mean, it was very relevant years ago, but now in some sectors it doesn't really matter how many employees you have because you could have state-of-the-art equipment and it would be considered a small business although, really, they could be a huge business in an economic sense. Therefore, should there not be additional indicators that you could use to compare businesses: what is small, and what is bigger or medium?