Absolutely, it's a concern. What we've been hearing from our membership through our surveys, focus groups, and one-on-ones is that uncertainty is just not good for business. As a result of it, there are just so many questions, and not only at the federal level. If you compile those questions with the challenges at the provincial level as well, you can see that small businesses are feeling completely overwhelmed.
They're overwhelmed with changes that they really don't have time to understand because they're busy running their small businesses and they're overwhelmed by the burden of additional red tape that they have to deal with.
Also, farmers are concerned. They're overwhelmed in terms of how they can pass on their family farms to their children. How can they do that?
It's just grinding things to a halt. A lot of businesses are saying that they're just stopping at this point and waiting to see what will happen.