I mean, I g- I, I guess my question is, like, is it going to be enough based on what you've heard so far?

Well, I guess we'd have to define what enough is, right? Like, enough to do what? Um, I, I'm certainly on board with what the CFIB is saying in terms of several, several of the comments that I've heard them make.

So one is that the, uh, programs, the, the criteria are too restrictive and, uh, shut out a lot of small businesses because they have revenue requirements of 1 and in other cases 2 million, and I think in, even in one case, $10 million of revenue.

So that's, that's obviously, uh, an issue.

And then the complexity of, uh, the systems involved in y- uh, implementing these various different programs.

Quite often we're talking about having to deal with a government department that the small business doesn't already have a relationship with.

You know, we all have a relationship with CRA, for example.

Does that do anything to help small business? Like, I guess I'm just sort of wondering if part of what the government has been doing to drum up deals with other markets, if small and medium-sized businesses can sort of piggyback on those agreements.

university soon.

It's about 10 K roughly.

I'm not even sure.

Um, that's not my mind.

I don't work.

I don't work in that part of the uni.

So, um, so I think, uh, I think you should just go do it if you, if you're already wired that way and you're 19, 18, 19 years old.

And that's where they're content, which is okay.

So when you work with entrepreneurs, give an example of, like, a, a company that has done that right, that you've seen that it's being made right.

Oh my gosh, lots of them.

So a great example would be a company called, uh, Jersey City.

So, uh, had- had a hypothesis that, um, people might want to, um, rent jerseys for, um, you know, basketball, hockey, football, those sorts of things, by the season.

Uh, uh, you may or may not know, but these things are quite expensive in, in Canadian dollars.

You know, for a hockey jersey with a name and numbers and all that on it, it's like $250.

And so the idea was, "Hey, maybe people would like to rent these things by the, by the season." And so they did it right.

Give us some examples of what you have done in order to do that.

My first thought still on-

That's, that's exactly what Most Problems Solve Themselves is about.

It's about ...

It's ...

So I'll tell you where it comes from.

There's sort of two, two o- overlapping themes that, that run through that article.

So but where the idea came from is way back when and then, dare I say it, in the '90s, I was doing a startup, uh, inside a big company.

Canadian angels, are there many?

Like, what would you say to a woman, because this is my listener, a woman who might have a little bit of savings, but has no experience and an idea?

Yeah, well, first of all, ultimately, I'm a firm believer in teams.

So the not having the experience but having a good idea does not have to be the biggest deal in the world.

I teach at, uh, Toronto Metropolitan University.

So I'll tell you about, um, one of the models that we use at TMU when we teach entrepreneurship.

So it's called the talent triangle.

It's for determining whether or not you have the right skills on your team, and your team has to be a team of at least two.

Okay.