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Annually, the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) participates in pre-budget consultations across Canada through detailed written submissions. CFA's submissions for the 2018-19 budget year focus on the following four priorities that we believe will contribute to the overall economic growth and sustainability of franchising in each province:
- Supporting entrepreneurs by pursuing franchise specific entrepreneur growth, targeting certain employment groups, and maintaining low corporate income tax rates for businesses;
- Ensuring the independent nature of the franchisor-franchisee relationship is recognized and understood by enshrining the relationship in legislation;
- Maintaining a reasonable, predictable, and fair minimum wage by ensuring policies balance the realities of what constitutes a fair wage with the responsibility of keeping the business environment healthy; and
- Reducing red tape and regulatory burden for small businesses by making commitments to establish a comprehensive measure of the regulatory burden, and reducing and restricting the growth of unnecessary regulations.
Submissions to jurisdictions that have open consultations can be found in the
Members Only Area of CFA's website.
CFA will continue to submit written responses as the remaining jurisdictions provide opportunity for public comment.
If you have any comments, questions or concerns regarding CFA's pre-budget submissions, please contact Ryan Eickmeier, Vice President, Government Relations & Public Policy at
[email protected] or by phone at 416-695-2896 ext. 297.
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