Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here to share CFIB's perspective on poverty reduction strategies. You should have a slide presentation in front of you that I'm going to walk you through in the next few minutes. As many members know, CFIB is a not-for-profit, non-part

Finance committee  I hear you. I have to say that's the first time we have received feedback on the business barometer that's.... I will speak with our chief economist, because as I mentioned, it has been a very respected tool. The Governor of the Bank of Canada, who we are meeting with next Monday

Finance committee  All right.

Finance committee  Or if it was what, sorry?

Finance committee  No, we did not ask that question.

Finance committee  Yes, that I have. I can tell you that the vast majority of that research was when the PRPPs were being introduced several years ago. A third of our members said that once they were rolled out they would be interested in providing a PRPP to their businesses. We know that—

Finance committee  The PRPPs aren't in force across the country yet. The only ones that are in place are in Quebec, and the uptake there is mandated for five or more. I'm not sure if that would answer your question. I believe that for the four other provinces, it's a technical federal issue that's

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Briefly, this may be misinformation, but my understanding is that things are being held up federally on a technical issue for those four provinces that do have the legislation in place. A difference is that PRPPs are meant to be really low cost, unlike RRS

Finance committee  Correct. In the vast majority of these, in the data I have before you, we contracted out Ipsos Reid to do a poll, so the numbers are smaller than you would normally see in the response rates for our own surveys.

Finance committee  If I can intervene, that's because the poll is monthly, and we don't poll our entire membership every month. We try to poll only 10,000 per month so that they are not getting—

Finance committee  I'll only say that this piece of research is the only research that gets at the non-stock-market economy. It's used by the Bank of Canada. It's used by Bloomberg. It's a very well-respected piece of research that our organization has developed over the last 15 years.

Finance committee  Correct. They're against the expansion. They support CPP.

Finance committee  Yes, that's how we get our mandate on all issues.

Finance committee  We agree.

Finance committee  It's 75 years.