It is vital to Canada's future economic development and prosperity that entrepreneurs, particularly women entrepreneurs, be encouraged and cultivated.

• One of the fastest growing business segments in Canada
• Canadian firms run by women, create new jobs at four times the rate of the national average, collectively providing more jobs than the Canadian Top 100 companies combined
• Women are creating not just jobs, but entire companies, at double the rate of the national average
• The number of women with incorporated businesses more than doubled during the last decade
• There are 821,000 self employed women contributing $18 Billion to the Canadian economy