News Releases

(OTTAWA) – April 18, 2019 – A new report by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Cultivating Competitiveness: Turning Agri-food Regulatory Reform Promises into Action highlights the need for government to act urgently to reduce regulatory burdens on Canada’s agri-food businesses.

The federal government’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth and Agri-Food Economic Strategy Table have validated the problems and proposed solutions for many of the regulatory challenges facing the sector.

(OTTAWA) – Wednesday, April 10 – From individual Canadians or small businesses, to Bay Street’s biggest firms, no one thinks Canada’s tax system is in working order. Canada’s tax system is outdated, complex, inefficient and it imposes significant compliance costs on taxpayers.

The Canadian tax system is such a royal pain that only a Royal Commission can address the issues our outdated system has created. To help make the case for the first review of Canada’s tax system in almost 50 years, the Canadian Chamber is launching A Taxing Issue, a website dedicated to arguing the case for a review.

(OTTAWA) – April 03, 2019 – A new report by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Check Engine Light: Climate Policy Overheats Transportation Costs in Canada, is Canada’s first attempt to measure the true costs to Canadian businesses of layered climate regulation.

As smaller, family-owned businesses, companies in Canada’s road transportation sector are highly exposed to climate policy duplication.

Today’s federal budget failed to address the fundamental issues that continue to undermine the ability of Canadian business to create more jobs and generate more prosperity for all Canadians, according to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s analysis.

(OTTAWA) – March 15, 2019 – The Canadian Chamber of Commerce wrapped up its work as Canada’s official representative at this year’s B20 summit, where its input will be included in recommendations to G20 leaders ahead of their June meeting in Japan.

The priority areas for Canadian businesses advocated by the Canadian Chamber were the promotion of digital trade and e-commerce policies to help exporters, tackling unfair industrial subsidies that disadvantage Canadian companies, and reforming the World Trade Organization to preserve multilateral trade rules.

(OTTAWA) – March 14, 2019 – Climate change is a defining issue of our times and Canadian businesses are prepared to play a role in combatting it. According to a report released today by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, that willingness is eroding, due to the prohibitive costs Canada’s climate polices have imposed on businesses across the country.

Titled A High Cost Climate Strategy Canadian Businesses Find Hard to Swallow, the Chamber’s report shines a light on the “pancaking” of climate-related costs and regulations, which are almost exclusively put on the shoulders of business owners, particularly the country’s small and medium-size businesses. As they begin to feel the financial impact of cumulative federal and provincial regulations impact, they are becoming less supportive of climate change policies.

(OTTAWA) – March 8, 2019 – The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is taking a delegation of Canadian businesses to next week’s B20 meeting in Japan, where they will also meet with Japanese business leaders and government officials to discuss economic and trade issues.

As Canada’s representative to the B20, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce is the business community’s primary voice at what is one of the world’s top business forums. In this capacity, the Canadian Chamber will contribute to the recommendations advanced by the B20 to the G20 leaders for their meeting in June. 

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce responds to “Universal pharmacare benefits business and working families”, published in The Hill Times on February 25. The following letter to the editor was submitted to the Hill Times on March 1, 2019.

On February 25, The Hill Times printed a column suggesting that businesses and families support the proposals to throw out a pharmacare system that is working for most Canadians in favour of a costly single-payer alternative. The authors do not speak for the Canadian business community, and they could not be more wrong about what Canadians want.

(OTTAWA) – March 1, 2019 – The Hon. Perrin Beatty, President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, made the following statement regarding Canada’s poor GDP results:

“We may have seen the impact of Canadian businesses reaching their limit with Canada’s broken regulatory and taxation systems: they’ve closed their wallets.

Canadian Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, the Honourable Perrin Beatty, issued the following statement today in response to the National Energy Board findings on the TransMountain Expansion Project: