I can debate that, but I don't have the time to debate it with you.
As a previous small business owner, I had an incentive for hiring an extra employee. We might have had 10 employees, and we could get that eleventh employee to grow our business, pay more taxes, and bring people off other programs that were a drain on the government. That has gone as well.
We had the Canadian Convenience Stores Association appear earlier this month, and they said they were told by someone in the finance department that the small business tax cut would be implemented in 2017. Did anyone in your department tell them that?