Absolutely. One thing that the Minister of Finance stated in the budget that has not received a lot of attention is the responsibility the financial institutions in the country have toward small and medium sized business. He challenged the financial institutions to become more supportive, more compassionate and caring toward the small business community. We all agree that in that community rests the best hope for putting Canadians back to work.
In a couple of weeks we will begin meeting with the banks again and challenging them. I for one will be asking them: "How is it that you can operate private casinos, most of them in
my city of Toronto, pushing unaccountable billions and billions of dollars a day but we cannot seem to figure out a way to deal with small business". The Minister of Finance has issued that challenge.
I realize my time is up but I would appeal to all members to let us start directing our attention toward a new Bretton Woods.