The strength of the federation and its network lies in its presence across Quebec and in representing a lot of businesses, in all major sectors of the economy. Our contribution is making the network of chambers available to the federal government so that it can reach out to businesses. Routinely, small and medium-sized businesses are unfortunately spending more time on their operations than on focusing on what will happen to them later.
Our proposal is to make the network available to the federal government in order to contact the businesses and educate them on the various business opportunities created by free trade agreements and to help them figure out how to withstand the potential competition. So the idea is to prepare Quebec's businesses to react and be proactive in this sector.