Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question.
Yes. We have done this in the past, and we've gotten some aspects of this in more real time. In our business conditions survey that we conduct in co-operation with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, we found that in the fourth quarter of 2021 nearly 20% of all businesses felt that government regulations would be an obstacle for them over the next three months. This is variable and we'll continue to track it.
We have tracked aspects of this over time. The last time we did a comprehensive study on regulatory burden was, I believe, in the 2016 reference year. At that time.... I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. I don't have data immediately available to me, but in 2016 we did undertake a study to sort of understand what the regulatory burden faced by small businesses was, and we can make that information available to the committee.