Standing Committee On Industry   governments leads to confusion, overlap and additional paper burden. Small businesses operating outside their own provinces often have to comply with different product and operation standards. In 1992 a Canadian Federation of Independent Business survey found that 71 per cent of small

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act  , the Canadian Taxpayers Association and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. It is a plan that is modelled after the Saskatchewan MLAs plan which has been in place for over 15 years and works very well for both taxpayers and members. It will end unfunded future liabilities

Budget Implementation Act   of all of us. With an equally formidable problem facing the government in the form of our massive debt, Reformers do not see it as too much to ask that the public servants, who according to a recent study conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses are paid 14 per

Party Fundraising  , the vast majority of whom support this approach, but also from businesses. Oddly enough, a survey conducted in 1988 by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which had over 80,000 members at the time, showed that a majority of directors of companies and small and medium-sized

Supply   to acknowledge the source of much of my comments today. It is "Growing Small Business", a budget document presented by the Minister of Industry. Most of what I will speak to today is in the government's budget documents. I thank the Canadian Federation of Independent Business for also

Federal Grants  Mr. Speaker, unfortunately we are not talking about loans here. Budgetary expenditures show the government is planning to spend $3.3 billion in grants to businesses in 1994-95 and a further $3.1 billion in 1995-96. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has recommended

Budget Implementation Act, 1994   this country needs badly and we need to work with. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said that this was a good budget and it was sensitive to the needs of small businesses. That is something we said we would do and something the budget addresses directly. We have to create

Budget Implementation Act, 1994   of the RRSP Home Buyers Program. "It is a huge incentive for small business to create business. You take a tax off jobs, you get more jobs". This is in reference to the cut in UI premiums by John Bulloch, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Even bankers have

Budget Implementation Act, 1994   Federation of Independent Business said: "It is a huge incentive for small business to create business". In the recent past federal action toward the provinces appeared to be based on a strategy of sneak attacks, confrontation and denunciation. This led to federal-provincial relations

Supply   the incentive to go out and hire people? I met a week or so ago with representatives of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business which represents hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country. They said that was one of the best things any government had done because

Small Business  Mr. Speaker, I do not understand why the member is taking that line. We have not announced anything like that. We are discussing better ways to help small and medium size businesses in Canada. The president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said it was a good

The Budget   information services to help individuals get their ventures off the ground. According to a recent survey conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, a freeze or reduction in government payroll taxes was one of the most important conditions necessary for small business

Unemployment Insurance Reform   of Finance has now done that in his budget. This move has been broadly supported by all the small business organizations across Canada. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has said that this measure will give them the mandate to go out and create work. However, we cannot

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   to freeze government salaries has some major inequities and it is a shame that there were not provisions put in there to deal with those. However, the overall impact is beneficial to small business because an extensive survey taken recently by the Canadian Federation of Independent

The Budget   know that many of us are all too well aware of reductions much more significant than this by national and international companies based in our own ridings. I would like to refer to a study done by the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses which undertook an analysis