Thank you, Kyle. I appreciate it.
York Region is a thriving community. As I said, it's a community of 1.2 million and growing. There are more than 600,000 jobs created. It is the jewel, I think, in the Ontario ecosystem as part of a larger innovation ecosystem. We have companies that are global multinationals, such as AMD, IBM's headquarters and Global Software Lab. We also have all of these thriving SMEs and start-ups.
One of the things that is quite unique to York Region, particularly centred around Markham, is that Markham is I think the most diverse city in Canada; it is I think over 78% foreign-born in terms of the community. In terms of what that allows us to do, it's the world at our feet inside our community. All of these diverse cultures and all of these diverse methods of thinking get layered into the businesses that are scaling in the community.
Another unique attribute, I think, in terms of the entrepreneurs who are growing and scaling is that they actually came from a lot of these global multinationals. They are very seasoned entrepreneurs who already have done this, so they have a much higher probability of success. One of the two I referenced actually did come out of ATI.
I think there's a real thriving kind of community, and government programs like the supercluster, FedDev and the other opportunities that we are a part of in our ecosystem allow us to cross the country to share our learning.