Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to our committee and to our chair, and welcome to our witnesses. It's so nice to have you with us today.
Ms. Jones, in my previous role as an economic development officer for the City of Kitchener, I had the opportunity to visit the MaRS District many years ago now, and I was very impressed by all the work that was going on there. I'm sure it's even more impressive today.
I was interested in your opening remarks. There are a lot of incubators that focus on start-ups, so I was interested to know that you're focusing a lot on scale-ups, which of course we refer to as the valley of death. We're really good at start-ups, as previous witnesses have said, but it kind of all falls apart during the scale-up phase, which produces its own unique challenges.
I was wondering if you could speak to the new ElevateIP program that the federal government has announced. How will that will help in this space, and what is your experience with that so far?