CFIR · The mission
Canada deserves more entrepreneurs.
We believe it starts with the knowledge of how to build a business.
That is the mission, in full. This page is the reasoning behind it.
01 · On value
An idea is the most precious thing a person can hold. And the cheapest.
Every company, every product, every cure began as one.
And an idea becomes any of those the moment someone acts on it.
02 · Two skills
To think is one skill. To turn thought into a thing — another.
- A discovery, that someone may make into a medicine on a shelf.
- An invention, that someone may make into a device in the world.
- An idea, that someone may make into a company with people in it.
The same skill — in different fields. And it is taught somewhere different from where thinking is taught.
03 · The discipline
This skill is called entrepreneurship.
It is a discipline, with its own craft and its own classrooms.
Some arrive with an invention, looking for the way to put it before the people who need it. Some arrive with an ordinary idea for a small business, looking for the place to begin.
They are taught the same thing. How to take what lives only in the head, and place it in the world so it functions.
04 · Investment
Money committed to entrepreneurial education is an investment.
The return: new entrepreneurs, new companies, new taxpayers.
For the country. For those who placed it. For the people who learned.
05 · Outcome
A few years after the programme — these people have companies of their own.
Small, mid-sized, all kinds. Jobs come into being. New products on the market, new taxpayers on the rolls.
This is the result — and the reason for all of it.
For the country. For the people themselves.
What the mission funds
The mission takes three forms.
Canada deserves more entrepreneurs. We believe it starts with knowledge — and we fund what we believe.
See what we fund ›