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Small Business Mr. Speaker, I was also a small business owner during the pandemic, and I really understand the struggles many continue to face. That is why we are offering additional flexibilities for small businesses to repay their CEBA loans, which are both balanced and fiscally responsible.
September 20th, 2023House debate
Rechie ValdezLiberal
Canada Business Corporations Act The CFIB talked about fraud and crime risks and how making beneficial ownership registries public could make it easier for criminals to target wealthy individuals or SMEs. Small business owners are often the targets of fraud and could be even more vulnerable than consumers, as they do not have consumer protection acts to help them manage those who want to take advantage of them.
June 20th, 2023House debate
Marty MorantzConservative
Canada Business Corporations Act One of the concerns we had was about how strict the rules are that protect whistle-blowers. We need whistle-blowers to identify where illegal activity is happening. As a small business owner myself, I have about four corporations that govern different parts of my business. Members can understand that without the ability to protect whistle-blowers, it is really easy sometimes for a small business owner to hide money and find different loopholes to hide it.
June 19th, 2023House debate
Ryan WilliamsConservative
Business of Supply Furthermore, we have big, bossy institutions that dominate our marketplaces with rules that protect them and not our small business owners, who find it hard to grow their businesses. Although the almost 1.2 million small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada make up 98% of all businesses in Canada and employ 10.5 million people, or 54% of the workforce, monopolies run this country.
June 21st, 2023House debate
Ryan WilliamsConservative
Small Business Speaker, the other day I got an email from the owner of Grizzly Jim's General Store in Topley, B.C. Like hundreds of thousands of other small business owners across this country, he accessed the Canada Emergency Business Account to keep his doors open during some of the most difficult times this country has seen. Revenues have still not fully recovered, and now small businesses are facing the added pressures of inflation and a tight labour market.
June 20th, 2023House debate
Immigration and Refugee Act Rather than address the illegal guns that the government has allowed to flood across the border, as used by the violent criminals it has kept out of jail, it goes after law-abiding firearm owners. Rather than go after its wealthy friends, it labels small business owners as tax cheats and goes after them. Now, rather than deal with the pressing and proven problem of Beijing, it raises the unsubstantiated spectre of an influx of sanctioned Russians.
June 13th, 2023House debate
Ted FalkConservative
Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act Recently, a group of plumbers and business owners came to Parliament to talk about the skills and labour shortage. These people are hard-working. They are small business owners and they are faced with an incredible labour shortage right now, one like we have never seen before. They cannot keep people and they cannot hire enough, no matter what they do.
June 6th, 2023House debate
Brad VisConservative
Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 They were having to choose between feeding their families or living without heat in the middle of a northern Saskatchewan winter, and he was having to choose between possibly losing money or seeing these families live without heat. That is the choice that this small business owner was facing because of the NDP-Liberal coalition nightmare. Small business owners are also continually telling me how the carbon tax disproportionately affects rural and remote areas like northern Saskatchewan.
June 5th, 2023House debate
Gary VidalConservative
Carbon Tax Mr. Speaker, I recently heard from a local small business owner who produces value-added goods found in many of our local grocery stores. His products and ingredients come from Quebec and Atlantic Canada, and he uses federally regulated trucking companies to deliver these goods.
June 1st, 2023House debate
Dan AlbasConservative
Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 Chamber of Commerce's 2023 AGM and conference, where it called upon the federal government, as one of its key policy planks, to address the immigration shortfalls. A recent CFIB report highlighted that small business owners are working 54 hours a week on average, largely to make up for staffing shortages. Labour shortages have had a particular impact on small businesses in the hospitality and agricultural sectors, where 84% and 82% of owners report working more hours respectively.
June 6th, 2023House debate
Brad VisConservative
Carbon Pricing It gets worse. The CFIB has now stated that, in 2023 alone, the carbon tax is going to cost small business owners $8 billion. What they will get back in rebates is a mere $35 million. Many of these small business owners are also in the food industry. They own our small restaurants. They own our small grocery stores.
May 30th, 2023House debate
Kyle SeebackConservative
Finance committee It was a pleasure to hear some of the testimony with respect to the impact of the carbon tax on small business owners and how it disproportionately affects small business owners. Some taxpayers are paying tens of thousands of dollars in carbon tax. Now we have the carbon tax two coming into place.
May 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Philip LawrenceConservative
Business of Supply This is just one of example of a suite of measures announced in budget 2023 to help make life more affordable. As another example, to support hard-working small business owners, budget 2023 outlined the government's efforts to work closely with small businesses and the payment card industry to lower these fees. Another important measure in the budget includes working with regulatory agencies, provinces and territories to reduce junk fees for Canadians.
June 1st, 2023House debate
Terry DuguidLiberal
Finance committee We have Grace Yan from the Philippines Chamber of Commerce in Calgary, who is also a small business owner. Why would we want to hear from small business owners about the increased tax burden that this bill and the 51 acts that it amends impose on them—not just in taxation but in regulatory burden—and how the impacts of inflation that have resulted from this and the subsequent interest rate increases have probably driven their sales downwards as a result of record spending and debt?
May 26th, 2023Committee meeting
Rick PerkinsConservative
Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act They are not included in the national advisory council being created by the government. It is really a shame that, as part of this child care legislation, small business owners have really been demonized. This is how many of them feel. We saw this at committee with the way the Liberals and NDP representatives spoke about small business child care providers.
May 31st, 2023House debate
Tracy GrayConservative