Finance committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Ste-Marie. I have a great example for you. The first unicorn in Quebec is Lightspeed, a company that makes us all very proud. The founder of Lightspeed is from British Columbia. He moved to Quebec and decided to expand his company there. He had

Finance committee  Ending those supports clearly puts start-ups and small businesses alike at risk. I'm not sure who, but someone put it well earlier. They said what mattered was the business's drop in revenues, whether it continued or not. That is what the government needs to keep an eye on; that

Finance committee  I'm a bit surprised by the question. It seems to me the government had put additional funding towards IRAP, so I don't think the issue is widespread.

Finance committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Ste-Marie. My main reason for being here today is to make parliamentarians aware that start-ups face a different reality, one that government programs need to take into account. For example, initially, the Canada emergency wage subsidy did not fa

Finance committee  That's a great question. Thank you, Mr. Ste-Marie. At the very beginning of the pandemic, in March, a survey revealed that 60% of start-ups had less than three months' worth of cash. Of course, we feared the worst. By mid-April, though, nearly two-thirds of start-ups had reprior

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance for inviting me. My name is Liette Lamonde, and I am the president and chief executive officer of Bonjour Startup Montréal, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to bet