There are 24 community futures development corporations across northern Ontario. They play a huge role in advising clients like small businesses and also in providing loans to those small businesses. They have a unique blend of hand-holding and of being able to do that analysis with them.
We have statistics that demonstrate that businesses that invested in community futures with community futures development corporations have a much more positive sustainability rate than businesses that haven't invested through the CFDCs. The community futures also support local economic diversification through strategic planning for the communities, and they are also able to provide advice on immigration and on all kinds of things. If they don't have the information the same way we do, we're pathfinders to be able to bring those businesses the support that they need in order to be able to advance. It's like a right arm, very useful and profitable.