Mr. Speaker, thank you for giving me the floor in this debate at third reading, after the magnificent speech by the member for Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière. He and the member for Mercier made several constructive suggestions for improving this bill.
I would like to ask him a question that I think is a very important one today. In our regions, we have seen the emergence of a new type of entrepreneur, men and women who were not necessarily trained in the same way as former small business owners. Very often, these are people who have been told that they have to create their own job.
Will this bill create sufficient interest to allow this new generation to emerge? Did we not propose amendments that the government should have retained? I realize that, overall, the bill at least introduces technical improvements, that it corrects a certain number of flaws, but is there not more that needs to be done?
Should the government not move as quickly as possible so that this new generation of entrepreneurs, who are not necessarily the most outstanding, those that act as quickly as possible, that have the necessary training, because we are asking them to create their own jobs, to start up and run new businesses, can benefit? They often have an important impact, particularly in rural areas.
Does this bill give us the necessary tools? Does the federal government seem to have a sufficiently open attitude to allow small businesses in rural areas to develop their projects and create two, three, four or five jobs, which make the difference between an up and coming community and one that is losing steam?
Can the member for Lévis expand on this?