We obviously looked at some studies that showed us the potential—the math I referred to in my remarks—growth in our overall GDP through greater and more successful outcomes for women. We obviously see that as one important reason for ensuring that we have measures that can help people be successful.
Specifically in the field of helping women be more successful in businesses, we start with the idea that we need to think about why it is there's not as much opportunity for women. That's why we started with the idea of accelerators and mentor hubs delivered regionally. We think that's critically important.
Secondly, we saw that there was not nearly as much success for women export businesses as there were for male businesses. That led us to putting funding through the Export Development Bank of Canada, with about $250 million in access to capital for export-led businesses as well as services and facilities to help them consider how they can best use those resources. Similarly, with the Business Development Bank, it's the same approach, although with more funds available that allow for access to capital. The BDC also has a facility to help people think about how to develop their business plans and actually put that capital to work.
On outcomes, we have the high-level studies that I referred to, but among the more interim measures to achieving potential positive outcomes would be to provide more capital for women-owned businesses, seeing growth rates that are more rapid for the businesses once they're started and, of course, seeing that over the long term this will actually have a broader economic impact for all Canadians.