When we are asked that question, we answer that we use the definition provided by Industry Canada. It states that a small business has fewer than 100 employees, while a medium business has fewer than 500 employees. At the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises, we believe that our mission is to help entrepreneurs, whatever the size of their business. We are there to help them. We almost never ask them how many employees they have. We consider that the needs are the same whether the business has a single employee, five employees or 100 of them. Our mission is to help the country's businesses. And so we don't review the figures since we don't consider the number of employees. We want to help all of the businesses. We encourage all of them to contact us.
On October 4th, 2011. See this statement in context.