Establishment of GO Capital Co-Investment Fund,
Montréal, Quebec,
November 17, 2006

Ministers Bernier and Bachand announce the establishment of the GO Capital co-investment fund.

From left to right: Sylvie Pinsonnault, Chief Executive Officer, FIER Partners; Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry; Raymond Bachand, Quebec's Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade; and Jean-René Halde, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Development Bank of Canada.

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