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Immigration,
Labour
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Advocating on behalf of small and medium sized businesses to ensure fair access to the temporary foreign workers, reduction of red tape, more pathways to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers at all skills levels and overall, ensuring future immigration better aligns with labour market needs.
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International Trade
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Advocating on behalf of small and medium-sized businesses to facilitate trade between Canada and other countries (CAN-US tariffs, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, Chinese tariffs) and improving services offered to them with respect to returning the counter tariffs to affected Canadian small businesses and allowing more flexibility for lower volume, lower value shipments from the Release Prior to Payment (RPP) program under CBSA’s CARM System.
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Employment and Training,
Small Business,
Taxation and Finance
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CFIB supports lower EI rates for small business employers and encourages the adoption of EI training credit for new employees.
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Financial Institutions
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Expanding the Credit Card Code of Conduct to include mobile and electronic payment provisions. Ongoing monitoring of the effectiveness of the code. Sharing concerns about the availability of banking services / costs offered to SMEs (e.g. Access to open banking). Any issues are raised with officials.
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Small Business
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Sharing data information and recommendations related to the state of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) overall and for specific sectors which could also include provincial data.
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