Thank you, Mr. Chair. I also want to take this opportunity to thank our witnesses who are appearing before the committee and helping us with this study.
I'm going to start with Ms. Materi, and other witnesses may feel free to provide their input as well.
Ms. Materi, you mentioned in your remarks that we should maybe look at other countries for what is and is not working and what we can learn from that. I wonder if you have any experience, or if you have any information or knowledge you'd like to share with the committee in terms of policies. What is it that some competitors are doing that's really working for their SMEs that we could possibly learn from and maybe help implement to support our SMEs?