I will be.
Thank you for your question, Mr. Gourde.
About a year and a half ago, I attended the Montreal Conference, a major international economic forum that was extremely important for our country. It was attended by the presidents of major banks and representatives of organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the OECD. I checked the information provided by the exhibitors there and saw that every participating country offered economic benefits.
As ambassador of the economies of the francophone and Acadian communities, I felt there had to be a tool to present the economies of those communities across the country. We prepared a document entitled "Invest, Do Business, Succeed—An overview of the economic benefits of the Francophone and Acadian communities", which presents our provinces and territories and the promising economic sectors and financing programs that could assist with business start-ups.
I used that tool at one point in my involvement in an activity called Destination Canada in Paris and Brussels. At the request of Canada's ambassador to Paris, I made a presentation to people interested in investing or starting up a business in Canada. I presented my document to them, and some 600 people were interested in starting up a business and investing in Canada. We designed a database to which the people interested in investing and starting up a business in our communities added their information. People were interested in buying restaurants in Manitoba, for example, or investing $300,000 or $400,000 in our communities.
There is an extremely significant amount of potential there, and we would like to take these initiatives to another level. This is a success story that could apply to our francophone and Acadian communities and provide them with money.