Mr. Speaker, we are going to continue to support small and medium-sized businesses. We are empowering entrepreneurs. We are increasing the lifetime capital gains exemption. We are investing in Canadian start-ups. We are boosting government procurement for small and medium-sized businesses and supporting indigenous entrepreneurs as well.
This also gives me the opportunity to announce that we have negotiated agreements with both Mastercard and Visa to lower interchange fees by up to 27%, which takes place as of October 19 of this year. We will continue to support small businesses.