Finance committee  Absolutely. I think small businesses support the intent and the principle behind the Canada job grant as long as it's administered in a way that is cognizant of the realities of the small business level. We'll be seeing the details now as they shake out provincially, of course, b

Finance committee  Sure. I'll speak to that. Some of the research that we have demonstrated shows that the most effective way to help a business is to give them a relief on payroll tax. What we would suggest and what we have promoted in the past is such things as the EI hiring credit, whereby the

Finance committee  Starting a business in Canada is certainly a challenge. It can be complicated. Our entrepreneurs tell us that they will do it if they have a good idea and if there is a demand. That is why there are about two million businesses in Canada, and 109,000 of them belong to our organiz

Finance committee  The jobs on the seventh slide are full-time. This matches a lot of other data that I cannot provide you with today, but that will be available in the next few weeks. I could send that report to the committee, if you are interested. These are jobs in small and medium-sized busine

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, as many members of the committee know, CFIB is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization representing more than 109,000 small and medium-sized businesses across Canada who collectively employ more than 1.25 million Canadians and account for $75 billion, or nearly hal

Finance committee  Not at all. Overall, the point of that slide is to show that the economy is still acting sluggishly. To help get us through this sluggishness, we believe governments need to address the issues of greatest concern to small businesses so that they in turn can focus their attenti