Thank you very much, Member Sheehan.
We are very integrated with the digital main street program. As you mentioned, it was funded across the province. Ours is a smaller portion of it from a funding point of view, but it's probably as critically important. As I was speaking about earlier, it's not just about retail and main street. It's actually focusing on a lot of manufacturing and so on.
As for what we found out from a lot of those companies, we start with a digital needs assessment and have more than 900 companies through that. The result has been that 70% of them are in either the explorer or the novice level of looking at digitizing their business and are very much in need of help. Only about 10% really would be considered leaders. That's against international benchmarks that we've worked up with partners, such as Foresters.
We have been very focused on practical programming and bringing in those organizations and doing intensive training, working with experts in the private sector. For instance, companies can work with a lawyer from BLG about regulation, as opposed to the local one or the one they might have been able to use. There's a lot of support that we're providing there.