Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's very kind of you to say.
Minister, welcome to our committee. You must be a busy lady. I hope the government gives you enough time to devote the necessary energy and attention to your portfolio, because this is a very important portfolio.
As the chair said, I had the privilege of starting a number of businesses. I am a businessman. I can remember as a young man working for a car dealer and watching him for seven years. I would just watch everything he did. I planned and I got that opportunity. Every year the spring would roll around and I wanted to go, but I just wasn't ready.
I have a real passion for businesses, as I think most members in this place do, but especially for small businesses.
You touched on a number of areas. You talked about small and medium-sized businesses. I don't know what they call the large businesses, maybe just large businesses.
I believe small and medium-sized businesses have 0 to 99 employees. Medium size is 100 to 400. I think that's how we classify them. Maybe some input—