We were really excited to be able to partner with the Ontario Business Improvement Area Association, the Toronto business improvement area association, Communitech and Invest Ottawa to provide multi-layer support.
I think it's important to realize that the regional relief and recovery program was about relief on one side, but also about recovery and being able to prepare for when the pandemic ended.
A number of companies did not have digital presence. The digital main street program worked directly with communities and with main street businesses to help get them online with small grants of $2,500. We were able to support 30,000 different businesses across southern Ontario through this program.
There is a really interesting company here in Ottawa that was a great example of this. It's called Hippie Mylk. It's a non-dairy, plant-based milk company. It was able to go from being a farmers' market-based company—of course, all the farmers' markets were closed during the pandemic—to being an online business. It is now an online/delivery business. It actually increased its revenues, thanks to the digital main street program that we were able to develop with our partnerships across the region.