Brian interviews Paula Cruickshank. Paula is BDC’s Senior Vice President, Ontario, and Digital Transformation Lead. She oversees financing and consulting services across that province, while also ensuring digital investment. Before joining BDC, Paula spent more than 11 years with the Scotiabank Group. She holds an International MBA from the Schulich School of Business and an LL.M in Banking and Financial Institutions from Osgoode Hall Law School. She talks about the Business Development Bank of Canada, how to grow small and medium sized businesses in Canada and digital transformation, as well as how to overcome the challenges that these times brought to businesses in the GTA area like labour shortage, high inflation, interest rates etc.

Brian closes the show with his own rant about our affordability crisis in the GTA.