Human Resources committee  Part of the strategy we have right now is succession planning and dealing with succession planning. We have, in our studies, recognized that 70% of the workers, the owners of small businesses in Canada and in this province, will retire in the next ten years, and that's frightenin

Human Resources committee  You're exactly correct. This is what small and medium-sized business owners, quite honestly, haven't thought about, and this is all part of the education process. If you're going to pass on your business, this is part of succession planning, and it involves picking someone to tak

Human Resources committee  I'll be quite up front with you. In our survey we haven't matched that. It's improper for me to come out and say I'm sure that's not what they're saying, because that's not the way we work. I could venture an opinion about what they're saying to us, from my discussions with them.

Human Resources committee  One of the people he lost was his son, who was to take over his business.

Human Resources committee  Everyone is skeptical when they hear that; even I was at first. We did a training report, and we asked what would be the way for members to put more money into training. The result was that the best way to have more money for training would be to have a lower tax burden. I do not

Human Resources committee  When I talked about providing financial training—and I have it here in our presentation, which I couldn't provide since it wasn't in both French and English—most of us have members here in the country. Out of all the members in the country, Newfoundland and Labrador provides the

Human Resources committee  When we researched this with our members, we found they recognize clearly that this is like a triangle that involves three partners: educational institutions, government, and business. They recognize that they have a role in providing training. They recognize that basic skills ar

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. First, Mr. Allison, you're familiar with our organization. CFIB represents small and medium-sized businesses in this country and in this province. We are the largest business organization in the country and province representing small business. We conduct re