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"Andrew Graydon: Chief Operating Officer of Netsweeper Inc. Andrew gave an enthusiastic talk on the benefits that IRAP has had on Netsweeper; explaining how they started out in 2002 with an IRAP YEP grant (Youth Employment Program) and then moved on in subsequent years to get IRAP project funding that enabled them to develop very innovative and what sounds like potentially very profitable technologies in the Internet content filtering area."

Last line is pure gold in retrospect.

This is very common for tech companies operating in Canada. Though it is interesting to consider nonetheless.

Canadian companies doing business with foreign governments get help from the Canadian Commercial Corporation and probably consular personnel too. The Canadian government is very much involved.