Finance committee  A capital gains tax would be an improvement, but I don't know that it's ideal, particularly when we're talking about family-owned businesses such as the family farm, or, in my case, a business that's worth under $10 million. For instance, it's difficult for my children to come u

Finance committee  We were a company that started off manufacturing steel wire products, things like display stands and newspaper racks, and way back when, we made sock dryers—if you're old enough to remember what a sock dryer is. We grew into steel fabrication. We were doing work for many agricult

Finance committee  We thought so as well. We made no headway with that. We made numerous requests for somebody from Calgary to come to our plant and see what we were talking about. We couldn't get that. Nobody from BDC showed up at our facility. We would have days and in some cases weeks go by with

Finance committee  Thank you. I haven't said a word yet and I've been promoted already.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, my name is Richard Koss and I am a small business owner from Winnipeg. You have my written submission already. I won't speak to that except to answer questions if you have any, and I know I'm on the clock, so forgive me if I get right down to bu