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Roy Green: The survival of small business owners should concern us all

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The elderly Calgary garage owner broke down in tears repeatedly on air relating his deep concern over the very possible end to the entrepreneurial effort into which he invested his last dollar.

The reason? The pandemic lockdown. He is not alone. Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the national lobby group representing the interests of the nation’s small business sector, has shared on air weekly during the lockdown the themes raised in correspondence the CFIB has received from entrepreneurs.

That correspondence includes words of deep despair, even suicide. The CFIB’s most recent data shows three per cent of small business owners are sure their enterprises will not survive if restrictions on

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