Human Resources committee  I do have research on that. We just published our banking report, which we do every three years reporting on financing for small business. The smaller you are, the harder it is to get financing.

Human Resources committee  Sometimes. We also call “love money” an important part of that, where people go to friends and family. Depending on the amount, they turn to credit cards.

Human Resources committee  Sometimes, but again it's harder the smaller you are.

Human Resources committee  Whatever assets they have at that time, often personal.

Human Resources committee  Their house.

Human Resources committee  Certainly. I know that our members, as I've mentioned, employ many youth and they often get their first jobs in a small business. Something that we had overwhelming support for—80% of our members supported—was the previously announced youth employment hiring credit that the Liber

Human Resources committee  Red tape certainly impacts all business owners. We know from our research that the impact on the Canadian economy was pegged at about $39 billion a year. That can be anything from filling out a complicated form to bad customer service or waiting on the phone trying to get through

Human Resources committee  Yes, we do have a significant proportion of construction members, and members will see in the “Business Barometer”, that's one of the breakouts.

Human Resources committee  I can't speak to that direct commentary, but I would imagine that anything that requires applying for a permit.... Usually a small construction company will have had that experience.

Human Resources committee  That is correct. That's their full-time staffing intentions for the next three months.

Human Resources committee  It's bad news for anyone seeking a job at this stage in the game. We are quite concerned about this. As you can see, it happens very rarely on our chart in the years of information that we've been collecting. This month's “Barometer”, the November “Barometer”, will be coming out

Human Resources committee  That's correct, for this month.

Human Resources committee  I suppose you could draw that conclusion. During the recession, we did a study of our members which showed that they were the first to hire and the last to fire. Often, they would forgo salaries themselves in their efforts to keep their employees during a time of economic instabi

Human Resources committee  Over our years of research, we certainly have been told by our members that the biggest impacts on them for hiring are payroll taxes; that is, from the members' perspective, they are profit insensitive, and you have to pay them whether or not you make any money that year. That ca

Human Resources committee  I don't have the specific figure off the top of my head, but we certainly have a sense from our membership that they do train a big number of youth in particular, who are getting their first jobs. Also, because our members offer a lot of part-time work, many individuals start in