I think a balance could be struck between both, whether it's symbolic or whether it's targeted. Targeted is important for economic growth, so that's really important.
In my experience, with regard to the resources that are available and that we as groups and community ecosystems have been able to tap into, the ones that I manage, we've seen a lot of resources released and few people. I think it's the information part of it, the availability, the access to some of the resources. Some of the resources are indeed available. The issue is that I am not certain that everyone has access to those resources because of the available information; they may be unaware and so on. That's one part of it.
With regard to targeted resources or targeted support, I think that, for the women entrepreneurship strategy, that has really helped, from my own experience. We are not a beneficiary of such support. However, I do know a few groups that have reached out to us to say that this is available through the women entrepreneurship loan fund. The issue, though, is that we're not able to quantify it. We have the data, or it's readily accessible, for the ones that are in Canada, but globally, with regard to women in trade, I'm not sure that there is ample data for us to measure how well people are doing, so we keep banding the percentages: 16.8% of women in business, 10% are exporting now from Canada. How does that compare to what used to happen before this strategy started? I think those are the balances we need to strike.
The other part of it is that if we're able to measure that effectively, then we'll know where the gaps are coming from, and then we'll know how to deal with those gaps based on the inputs today. The other part is targeted. I'm black or BIPOC, so I know that there are some targeted resources that have been released to that community of BIPOC entrepreneurs. That has really helped, I must say, because before now I never saw those types of targeted resources.