Southern Vancouver Island has become one of the centres of high technology. I know everybody claims to be “the” centre of high technology. I won't make that claim today, but I've heard locally from people that despite the efforts of all the groups to include them, they find it hard to get the information they need to be ready to step into a lot of these programs. In terms of companies that aren't located here in Ottawa or aren't part of the big networks, what specific things are being done to help those that are located in my riding to participate in technology development?
