Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
So often red tape and regulation are portrayed as something that the corporate sector is worried about. In fact, large corporations love having red tape, because it's a great way to keep out competitors. It makes it advantageous to be large and to be able to afford lawyers, consultants and lobbyists and to have connections to people in power.
As Ms. Jones, from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, points out, small businesses—