Finance committee  You're absolutely right. We will focus on our core business, and we need the government to do its part as well. I agree.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question and the time. I'll start with ACCA. I'm talking here about the measure for accelerated amortization. It has done its job in past years. Companies have been investing. The idea of that fiscal measure is to incentivize companies to invest now. Conside

Finance committee  Of course that would make a lot of sense. You are right. We are lagging in terms of investment. We're way behind. When you look at the growth of investment in the OECD countries, some of them are very positive, but the difference between the two is growing. That would certainly

Finance committee  Absolutely. It's the same comment I mentioned earlier concerning the IRA. These programs are difficult to access. In this case, it's a tax measure, and it's difficult to have access to it. On this specific recommendation, we mentioned expanding the list of eligible activities be

Finance committee  It should shorten processing times and provide greater predictability for employers bringing in temporary foreign workers. For example, an employer might have a big contract requiring many employees over a period of two years and have to start production on January 1, but the wor

Finance committee  I support the request to delay repayment for a year. Fewer of our business members are concerned, but this is nevertheless very hard for some of them. I think Mr. Lavigne emphasized the point that the current inflationary situation has made this delay necessary. I have been in m

Finance committee  There are actually two points here. I'd say that businesses are cautious about investment, just as they are for hiring. However, they've suffered so much from the labour shortage in recent years that they're making every effort to retain their employees and not to lay them off. T

Finance committee  You have to look at the measures set forth in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act compared to what has been proposed here to date. Draft legislation has been introduced to establish two tax credits, but there's a lack of predictability and it's complex. On the American side, on the

Finance committee  Federal programs are generally more complex. It's always more complicated for an SME to file an application for a federal aid program than for a Quebec aid program, for example. There are more red tape, more bureaucracy, more requirements and less flexibility. That's the case for

Finance committee  There are actually a lot of them in the brief, but the ones I presented are really the main export and investment ones. Perhaps one thing could be done for the SMEs with regard to decarbonization. Large businesses have adopted a carbon neutrality objective, and you can expect th

Finance committee  The first thing is that all costs have sharply risen for businesses, whether it be wages, inputs or transportation. Costs are up, but we can't always pass them on to consumers. Debt service has risen as well. For businesses that have loans and lines of credit, what working capit

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, members of the Standing Committee on Finance, I am pleased to be with you today to present the recommendations of the Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec regarding the 2024‑2025 budget. Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, which we are part of, submitted its pre

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll just do it in French for the last two or the last three that were left. We talked about the labour market impact study and the need to update it. That process was put in place to protect Canadian workers. Of course, they have to be protected, but in a full employment contex

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, of course.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I would say that in Quebec manufacturers are looking for more foreign workers. They're actually asking the government to bring in more immigrants to answer the labour shortage, and they're being very creative in order to attract immigrants, women and young people. I think th