Madam Speaker, as I said earlier today, my riding is home to many SMEs, businesses and members of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, or CFIB for short.
I am in regular contact with the folks at CFIB, and they talk to me about fees and input costs for businesses and SMEs. These are some of their biggest concerns for the future, because with costs going up across the board, their input costs are obviously going up too. With inflation, this is placing an enormous strain on these small businesses and their owners, who are the lifeblood of our local economies.
Can my colleague explain what a difference it would make if the government were willing to stand up to the big bank card companies and how much this would help our SMEs, which are a unique Quebec model?