Finance committee  Small businesses look at capital gains from two perspectives. Primarily our members—small and medium-sized companies—look at the capital gains treatment when they sell their businesses. Most small business owners count on the sale price of their businesses to fund their own

The Budget   among us the most. Whatever the Prime Minister says, it will not be him and his billionaire friends who pay for new spending. It will be single moms, workers and small business owners. We cannot tax our way to prosperity, and no government program can increase productivity better

The Budget   children in an incremental way in budget 2024. We know that children are the future of Canada. Many of them are the leaders of today. They will become tomorrow's doctors, nurses, electricians, teachers, scientists and small business owners. Every child deserves the best start in life

Government Operations committee   it for their neighbours and they do it for their families, for farmers and for small business owners. Through these people and through other people, they do it for all Canadians. For decades, the association has been resisting the efforts of Canada Post to reduce services to rural Canada

Finance committee  , ties, skirts and dresses are the uniforms worn for work, similar to everyone in this room today. I am here today to celebrate the major contribution of the small business owners of the Canadian Fabricare Association across Canada. We are members of a small business community

Human Resources committee   they are launched by employers or by employees. That disrupts the supply chains, that affects small businesses and affects the livelihoods of the people employed by small business owners.

Human Resources committee  Certainly. Right now, the level of optimism of small business owners is quite low, and there are many reasons for that. One is that every single line of a small business budget is increasing. Whether it's their insurance costs, taxes, regulation costs, wage costs or borrowing

Human Resources committee   today. I will make my remarks in English, but I can answer questions in both French and English. The CFIB, Canadian Federation of Independent Business, represents 97,000 small business owners in all sectors of the economy and in all regions of the country, Canadian SMEs

Government Operations committee   department can argue that every regulation on its own is important, but nobody thinks about the whole burden and the impact that it has on what people are going to do. The fact that almost two-thirds of small business owners—

Government Operations committee   of reasons. It has become a real drag for many small business owners, who are right now feeling the pinch and are not feeling that they're necessarily being considered when it comes to the carbon tax, even though they pay a lot of it. We're hoping to see some movement on that shortly.

Government Operations committee   an answer from a government helpline and then another two hours for your blood pressure to come down. It's no surprise that 87% of small business owners say that excessive regulation adds significant stress to their lives and that 63% would not advise their children to start a business

Business of Supply  , leaving no one insulated from its effects. From the single parent in Edson struggling to make ends meet to the small business owner in Rocky Mountain House facing increasing operational costs, the message is clear: This carbon tax increase is financially and morally wrong and one

Business of Supply  . For this one in particular, the small business owner told me that that amount would have been his profit. Of course, we also know that there is GST on top of the carbon tax as well, so how can that Liberal member justify this, when we have small businesses that are paying these types

Finance committee  —due to the decisions of this level of government. I'd like to ask why Bill C-59 doesn't address the $82-million-a-day opportunity of the LNG market, but that's not why I'm here today. I'd like to address why this bill doesn't help small business owners, of which I am one. You see

International Trade committee   and region in Canada. I want to share some insights from small businesses engaged in international trade on the challenges they are facing with CARM. My remarks are based on some new data we've just collected from more than 2,000 small business owners, as well as anecdotal feedback we've