I don't know how to.... I'm trying to think of the right way to phrase this for the committee, so that you can actually do something with my feelings on this.
So many of the challenges that women entrepreneurs face are about the right access to the right people at the right time, and that's generally because many of them do not have connections to the business community in other markets, are not introduced properly or do not actually have the strength and the courage of conviction behind them to fund properly.
Yes, I think it's a challenge for women entrepreneurs in general. It becomes even more challenging when you ask them to start thinking about exports, because they do not have the types of connections or the types of resources they need, and they're not given the same opportunities.
This is the bias I was talking about earlier. This exists. We have to think about how we can eradicate these biases. We have to remember that women entrepreneurs are actually incredibly talented, that their businesses are proven to be more successful and that they have a lot of things going for them.
One of our witnesses today, Helen, was talking about the fact that many of them have many biases that they start with, and they have many challenges, whether it's taking care of their parents, taking care of their children or dealing with domestic violence. There are many things that we have to address in order to help women be able to export.
It's a very complex question that you asked, but I think it is something that can be tackled by opening up trade doors through trade commissions and other areas where we put a focus on helping support women entrepreneurs in other markets. I think there is a service that provides that today, but whether or not it's actually driving the right results is questionable.