ICBA’s Jordan Bateman joined Jim Goddard of HoweStreet.com to lament the lack of attention being given by federal leaders to small business owners and entrepreneurs.
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2014: for every dollar a 🇺🇸 company invested per worker, a 🇨🇦 company invested 87 cents.
2024: 54 cents.
That's not tariffs - it's a decade of bad decisions.
ICBA filed 15 fixes with Ottawa — under-a-year project approvals for everybody, a 10% cut to 149K federal rules, and
$650 BILLION in major projects on the books in B.C. and Alberta. Approvals that take 5 years. Mines that take 15.
ICBA's 2026 pre-budget submission to Ottawa: cut decisions to under a year — for every project, not just the ones Cabinet picks.