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Monthly Communication Report

4590-646518

Organization: Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)/Fédération canadienne de l’entreprise indépendante (FCEI)
Associated registration: 832352-4590-114
Communication date: 2025-08-01
Posted date: 2025-09-15

Designated Public Office Holders who participated in the communication: Fares  Al Soud, Member of Parliament
House of Commons
 
List of Details
Subject matter Detail
Immigration, Labour 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.
International Trade 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.
Budget, Small Business, Taxation and Finance Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) shares its suggestions for Budget 2025 focusing on: reducing Employment Insurance premiums for small businesses; reducing taxes, red tape and barriers to internal trade; and revisiting the proposed capital gains tax changes.
Environment, Small Business, Taxation and Finance CFIB is advocating for the return of the remaining amount promised to small businesses as part of the carbon rebate and for the formal introduction of legislation to confirm its non-taxability along with the extension of the filing deadline to December 31, 2024.
Small Business 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.
 
Communication Report amended on: 2025-09-15 previous entry: 4590-646492
Reason for amendment: forgot to add carbon tax (it was previously under the topic of budget) and is now its own topic
 
Responsible Officer who filed this communication report: Daniel Kelly
 
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