Well, on the EI and CPP side of things, making EI more generous would obviously result in increasing EI premiums, which, as I've pointed out in my presentation, is something our members would really not be able to absorb very easily; it would affect their ability to hire.
It's the same with CPP premiums. As people know, employers pay 50% of the CPP premiums and pay 60% of EI premiums, and any increases in those will have a direct impact on small businesses' decisions to hire. There is no doubt that they will think twice about having to hire or add people to their workforce if those go up.
As for trade agreements, small businesses.... About 25% of our members trade externally, and 50% are importing as well, so trade is an important element, and the reason no more of them do it is that there are so many barriers to trade. Any way we can negotiate eliminating some of those barriers through free trade agreements will, I think, only encourage more and smaller businesses to also look at other countries.