Small business owners in one area of Canada are calling on the local government to do more to help them be successful.
According to a recent survey conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, small business owners in Sault Ste. Marie are not happy with the way the government has treated them and are looking for improvements. Just 2 percent of those surveyed said that the government was doing a good job, while 34 percent said it was adequate and 64 percent said it had been doing poorly.
The vice president of the CFIB in Ontario said small businesses were key to the overall success of the areas in which they worked.
“Small businesses are the backbone of their local communities” said CFIB's Satinder Chera. He added that “these results are a wakeup call for local leaders who have been accustomed to treating their small business constituents as nothing more than cash cows."
The CFIB has been in the news recently after it criticised the government in Vancouver for not properly consulting small businesses regarding the implementation of a concrete barrier next to bike lanes. They said that the new addition would hurt small business because it would make them harder to see from the street.
