I think you mentioned in your statement that the “paycheque taxes”, as we call them, are particularly onerous for your members. Could you talk about the difficulties in terms of all these added costs being piled on, and about now losing the forgivable portion of the CEBA? How are businesses going to weather the storm when interest rates are so high? Commercial rents, as you pointed out, have skyrocketed. The government keeps layering on cost after cost after cost.
On November 17th, 2023. See this statement in context.