BANC committee submission on SME financing
Canada can continue treating its financing monoculture as inevitable, or it can follow the lead of peer jurisdictions and intentionally build the institutional diversity required for a different outcome. The status quo produces predictable, cumulative exclusions that compound over time into lower productivity, narrower entrepreneurship, weaker community resilience and entrenched inequity.
Business Ownership & Entrepreneurship
Tracking these indicators will allow us to measure whether the businesses that are integral to the Canadian economy have an environment where they can start, grow and succeed.