Catherine Swift Business Quotations

There's no simple answer. We're certainly not going to be able to attract enough immigrants who can move in, buy a business and make a go of it, even though that's undoubtedly a partial solution.

It touches everybody to some extent. Many businesses have travel as a component of the business, ... Everybody uses energy to some degree.

The growing concern with business input costs such as energy and insurance ... will start to hamper small firms' expansion and hiring plans if action isn't taken. The most obvious course of action would be to lower the overall tax burden to alleviate the pinch small businesses are feeling.

It's just not practical. Seventy-five per cent of businesses in this country have fewer than five employees.