We have taken advantage of any and every federal, provincial and local program along our journey. As we've grown and our needs have changed, some of them have become more important.
I would like to point out a few. SR and ED has been excellent for us. We are an R and D company, and that has helped us immensely to be able to continue innovating and developing new intellectual property. We have also taken advantage of the NRC IRAP. That has allowed us to focus on creating new jobs for new, highly qualified personnel and hire those folks into our company to do that R and D.
More recently, as we've been focused on scaling, we've taken advantage of the PrairiesCan program through Western Economic Diversification, whose zero-interest repayable loans have helped us incredibly with cash flow as we have focused our efforts away from R and D and more towards go-to-market and export. Those have helped us make some of those significant investments up front. This is a challenge that I think a lot of companies have as they're transitioning from research and development to commercialization; you have to spend a lot of money and you're not going to see the payoff for quarters or, potentially, years. Programs such as the PrairiesCan loan program have helped us immensely to be able to do that.