Madam Speaker, I rise to take this moment to talk about small businesses.
I hear a lot of points being raised when it comes to our job creators. We know that we support our small and medium-sized business owners.
Do the investments in budget 2016, the $11.9 billion in infrastructure that we are hearing about, actually support and benefit our small business owners? The $500 million in broadband, for rural and remote areas, to allow them to be competitive; the $800 million for innovation; the $50 million to the industrial research assistance program; the $50 million to Destination Canada; and the list goes on: do these investments support our small and medium-sized businesses?