Finance committee  As a second-generation broker, it was tough to convince my parents to even want to sell to us, for a multitude of reasons. It was primarily because they could sell to a third party for significantly more money. Ultimately, as I said in my opening remarks, they wanted to continu

Finance committee  I think we're already seeing it happen, particularly in the last couple of years. We're seeing a lot of large consolidations of small brokerages that are selling to large corporations, as I mentioned in my comments, either backed by private equity firms or by insurance carriers o

Finance committee  Thank you, Peter. Thank you to the committee members for the invitation to speak today. I am here to speak in support of Bill C-208 because of my experience purchasing the family business from my parents. When my parents decided to sell their business, they received an offer