Big business has received relief because they can call up their friends in Ottawa. Canadian university students and young, urban loafers are getting it because they can wave placards, shout.Small business owners? We haven’t the resources or time.
We’re All in This Together (except Small Business Owners)
I was two years into starting my cosmetic clinic in downtown Toronto and had just hired my second employee when COVID hit. Despite my 70-hour weeks, gargantuan bank debt, and seemingly never-ending battles with local bureaucracy, my small business has received exactly zilch from government. I was all the more furious then after reading the recent exposé on the complete lack of checks being placed on the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit program (CERB).