Dear Federal Party Leaders;
Without a thriving business sector, Canada’s economic growth suffers, our prosperity declines and our governments can afford fewer roads, hospitals, schools and social services. For Canada to succeed, our businesses must also succeed.
Today, Canadian businesses face obstacles our competitors do not. We call them the seven burdens of business: over-regulation, a complex and outdated tax system, the difficulty finding and retaining skilled workers, the need for improved technology infrastructure, lack of support for SMEs, insufficient trade tools and proposed changes that may undermine employer-provided healthcare.
All of these issues could be advantages for Canadian businesses, but today they are not, at least when compared to the countries with which we compete.