Finance committee  Our members are small and medium-sized businesses. Every day in the past year they've had to make extremely difficult decisions on employment, on managing their business. If they don't, they go out of business. They don't get money thrown at them because they were mismanaged comp

Finance committee  That's a good point. The CMHC certainly provides a lot of data on the construction of new homes. Whether it's CMHC or lower interest rates, we encourage the government, through CMHC, to stimulate new home construction, whether or not that new home construction is on the lower end

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm here today as chair of the government relations committee of the Canadian Retail Building Supply Council, an umbrella organization made up of five of Canada's regional and provincial building supply associations. Our pre-budget submission is supported by