John Carmichael at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On March 15th, 2012. See this statement in context.

March 15th, 2012 / 4:15 p.m.

Conservative

John Carmichael Conservative Don Valley West, ON

Thank you, Chair.

Minister, thank you for coming today. We are glad to see you here.

I come from a small business background, a small medium-sized business, and as you know, in the last several years credit crunches and finance crunches have made it difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to compete with access to financing, access to credit, etc.

Could you tell us in a few minutes what our government is doing and has done to improve access to financing, particularly for small businesses but also medium-sized businesses?

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