Human Resources committee  Yes, our members are in retail; so small mom and pop shops. Our members are small construction companies. Our members are also in agriculture. Our members are in wholesale, manufacturing. Our members are in the hospitality sectors. Seventy per cent of our members are businesses w

Human Resources committee  Certainly. Right now, the level of optimism of small business owners is quite low, and there are many reasons for that. One is that every single line of a small business budget is increasing. Whether it's their insurance costs, taxes, regulation costs, wage costs or borrowing co

Human Resources committee  Good morning. My name is Jasmin Guénette. I'm the vice-president of national affairs with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. I am here with my colleague, Christina Santini, director of national affairs. We would like to thank the committee for the invitation today

Finance committee  Potentially. To have the position of our membership, we would need to ask them questions on their views of different programs to build more social housing, but the issue remains the same. It's one thing to have a program, and it's another thing to have the people to build the hou

Finance committee  Very briefly, I'd say that CFIB supports the idea of granting tax relief measures to people for ownership purposes and to businesses that build houses so they have the resources to build more.

Finance committee  We focus essentially on our members, who represent 85% of the construction workforce across the country, and how we can support small business efforts to build more housing by helping small businesses have access to more labour and by helping them cope with the increased cost of

Finance committee  Good morning. My name is Jasmin Guénette, and I am vice-president, national affairs, of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. I am joined by my colleague Christina Santini. As I'm sure you know, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the CFIB, represents 97

Agriculture committee  Could you answer this question, Ms. Brown?

Agriculture committee  I will respond. If my colleague Ms. Brown then wants to add something, I will invite her to do so. First, we support the idea of a sunset clause. We have suggested a sunset after 10 years, if that will help get Bill C‑234 passed and help our farmers. We must find a way to help t

Agriculture committee  From our perspective, it's better to offer not paying the taxes than to offer rebates. You are right that in a previous survey we asked our members how much the carbon tax was costing them, and we came up with the figure of $45,000. The carbon tax is extremely expensive for our f

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jasmin Guénette, and I'm the vice‑president of National Affairs of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the CFIB. I'd like to thank the committee for this invitation. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business represents 95,0

Finance committee  Can you repeat your question, please?

Finance committee  Approximately 70 per cent of the members we represent have businesses with about 12 to 15 employees. Our members have retail, construction, food services and accommodation businesses, among other types. Most of them are small businesses. Regarding the green transition or energy

Finance committee  Do you want me to answer the question? Who are you asking?

Finance committee  I'm going to repeat some things that have already been said. A number of our recommendations are important for dealing with the labour shortage in Canada. We have already discussed it, but immigration is an important issue. We have to make sure that our businesses have access to