Finance committee  One zero-cost measure for the government and the Minister of Finance would be to allow the money that was invested in the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund and that is supposed to be repaid into our financial tool, Capital Réseau, to be cleared quickly, before 2026. This money i

Finance committee  I will be happy to do so.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mrs. Chatel. It is critical for businesses to be on the cutting edge of the green transition, because it is about preparing for the future and moving to a new economy. In 2022 and soon in 2023, we cannot continue as we did even before the pandemic. So we have to chang

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Dear committee members, I am very pleased to represent the Réseau des Sociétés d'aide au développement des collectivités, SADCs, and Centres d'aide aux entreprises, CAEs, in Quebec. I am the proud representative of 67 federally funded non-profit o

Finance committee  Absolutely. The model you are referring to is drawn mainly from the innovation superclusters model. The only problem is that gateways need to be built between the clusters. Indeed, these clusters often work in isolation. The goal is to promote the emergence of smaller clusters i

Finance committee  I thank you for your question. There is, in fact, a great deal of room. We are doing what our means allow us to do with the businesses we fund, which are businesses with 20 employees or less and sales of 2 million dollars and under. We want to introduce them to a culture of inno

Finance committee  Ms. Chatel, I'd like to respond that the best tools are the SADCs and the CAEs. Taking care of rural areas and large, more isolated areas is part of our DNA. The mandate given to us by the federal government through Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions is to take good

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Committee members and guests, I'm pleased to be speaking to you on behalf of the network of Sociétés d'aide au développement des collectivités, or SADCs, and the Centres d'aide aux entreprises, or CAEs, in Quebec. This wonderful network has 67 members, inc