We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.
It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
Our government is focused on creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity and on creating the right conditions for Canadian businesses.
When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.