The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital.

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

In my early days, fashion was considered a very high risk industry. The failure rate is very high. Trying to get capital and trying to find people who specialize in that industry is very difficult too.

There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.

People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.

The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital.

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.