Finance committee  Hi. It's Susanna from the Canadian Chamber. Get Parliament back together and get the legislation passed so this help can start getting out to businesses. I think that's our first ask. Absolutely, we need to continue on in this vein as long as we're in this crisis, because it's t

Finance committee  What I will say is we think that parliamentarians need to get back together as quickly as possible, either in the format they adopted for the passage of the other legislation or another format, but it needs to be done now. We think that Parliament needs to be recalled as quickly

Finance committee  Well, from our perspective, what we're hearing from our members is that the banks may need a little prodding from the government, particularly for the BCAP, as well as the Canada emergency business account. What we're hearing anecdotally is that businesses are starting to make

Finance committee  It's Susanna again. I apologize, but perhaps I could add one more thing. With so many businesses now moving into non-customer-facing transactions, a lot of credit card transactions are being conducted over the phone. A 1% additional fee is charged by the credit card company for

Finance committee  I would totally agree with what Dan said. The government has already started on that path with eligible employers, under the emergency wage subsidy, being able to receive back their CPP and other federal payable deductions. I would also like to put forward another concept. This

Finance committee  We are hearing a lot about putting money directly in the hands of landlords themselves. I think we heard a suggestion from one of the other panellists today on that. It could be a shared federal, provincial and territorial responsibility. A lot of SMEs we're talking to would feel

Finance committee  What we're hearing right now from our members is a lot of confusion and a lot of questions. I think it goes back to what Mr. Moody was saying in his presentation, which is that the complexity is really causing a lot of concerns right now, so it's really too early to say. All we'

Finance committee  I would be happy to do that. We're actually in the field right now with a Statistics Canada survey that we're partnering with them on, so we should be in a position to do that.

Finance committee  I concur with what Dan said. We're starting to get questions now from some small businesses because of the gap between the original 10% and the 75% being such a leap, and asking if the government would consider sort of a mid-ground subsidy for companies that can only demonstrat

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As you know, my name is Susanna Cluff-Clyburne and I hold the small and medium business file at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. I'll be sharing my time this afternoon with my colleague, Leah Nord, who is the director of workforce strategies and inclusive

International Trade committee  Specifically to SMEs, I guess it would be some of the measures that we outlined earlier in our presentation that would be of specific help to get SMEs that are either thinking about or have made that step to go internationally to continue to grow internationally.

International Trade committee  Thanks, Mark. Several of our small and medium-sized members operate internationally. What might be surprising for some around the table is the fact that for several of these members, the vast majority of their customers are actually outside of Canada. They have almost no custome