📢 Good news for Vancouver’s small businesses. Extending temporary patios through Labour Day gives restaurants and bars more time to capitalize on the busy summer season.
CFIB will keep pushing for simpler patio rules and less red tape, while ensuring local business input helps guide the City’s next steps on the Granville pedestrian zone. #bcpoli
🚨 NEW: Victoria ranks worst and Vancouver ranks best when it comes to small business concerns about the cost of City Hall.
We asked BC small businesses how concerned they are about local government costs. Here's how cities stack up. �� #bcpoli 1/2
Pleased to partner with @Intuit More with AI tour to empower business owners with the skill and confidence to unlock the power of AI.
Yesterday morning, with MP @Taleeb, we explored ways AI can help entrepreneurs so they can focus on what matters most — growing their business.
🚧 Small businesses shouldn’t be collateral damage from major construction.
📣 Transit expansion matters, but so do storefronts losing customers through years of disruption. With more businesses closing than opening, BC needs immediate relief to reverse its entrepreneurial drought. #bcpoli
May 31 was the deadline to allow direct-to-consumer alcohol shipping.
⚠️ BC missed it.
Small businesses need progress on internal trade, not more missed timelines. #bcpoli
An emotional rendition of O Canada in Montreal as the home support embraces the CanMNT 🇨🇦 ahead of the World Cup
Max Crepeau, back home, sheds a tear, too 🥲
Canadian pride is on full display ahead of the #FIFAWorldCup as the world's largest flag stretches across Grouse Mountain, measuring 160 by 80 metres. 🇨🇦⚽️🏔️
(🎥: @grousemountain, H/T @CTVNews )
ICYMI: This week, CFIB presented its BC Budget 2027 recommendations to the @BCLegislature:
📉 Lower the small business tax rate to 0% by 2030, raise the threshold to $700k, and index it to inflation.
🚧 Compensate small businesses crushed by government construction, like the Broadway line.
🛑 Stop the expansion of the PST to professional services, which drives up costs for everyone.
Watch more 👇 #bcpoli
Yesterday, CFIB's VP of National Affairs @JasminGuenette testified at the @HoCCommittees
Standing Committee on Finance #FINA as part of their study of Bill C-30 (spring economic update)
Governments set a May 31 deadline to remove one of Canada's most obvious internal trade barriers: direct-to-consumer alcohol shipping.
The result? Only Manitoba and New Brunswick got it done.
If premiers are serious about breaking down internal trade barriers, they need to start meeting their own deadlines. Small businesses don't need more announcements—they need action and results.
#InternalTrade #cdnpoli
How BC small businesses can help create more opportunities for young workers was at the top of our agenda in today’s meeting with Minister @KahlonRav.
Thank you, Minister, for taking the time to hear from CFIB! #bcpoli
Meanwhile, in Seattle....Staging #FIFAWorldCup games is costing the city $32 million (US) to host six matches...Seattle's security bill: $15 million (US)...
Vancouver's security bill: $242 million (Can)....#vanpoli
https://t.co/eOG6MnFMeG
Good to meet with the Leader of the Opposition @PierrePoilievre & Deputy Leader @MelissaLantsman in Ottawa today. Canada is facing an entrepreneurial drought - with more business closures than openings over the past year.
We spoke to the need for immediate action on tax and regulatory policy to help small businesses succeed.