Mr. Speaker, the member for Lincoln is right. The small business community will be key to building our job creation efforts in the years ahead.
Already we can see a great deal of progress. We can see the progress that comes from the repeated year after year reductions in unemployment and employment insurance premiums. We can see the significant reduction in the cost of capital. Because of the policies pursued by the Minister of Finance, a $1 million loan for a small business today costs $2,800 a month less than it would have cost ten years ago just to carry it.
We can see the progress we have made in investment in tourism, investment in youth entrepreneurship and access to capital through the Business Development Bank.
The small business community in this country is poised as never before to be the heart of job creation.