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Municipal Property Tax Fairness in Saskatchewan

Municipal Property Tax Fairness in Saskatchewan

In this report, CFIB examines the disparity between commercial and residential property taxes among Saskatchewan’s 15...

Municipal Property Tax Fairness in Manitoba

Municipal Property Tax Fairness in Manitoba

In this report, CFIB examines the disparity between commercial and residential property taxes among Manitoba’s 10...

The Cost of Fraud: How Small Business Owners Are Tackling Risks and Challenges

This report explores the challenges faced by small businesses as a result of fraud, identifies the prevention measures...

Atlantic municipal report 2024: Which municipalities are small business friendly?

Atlantic municipal report 2024: Which municipalities are small business friendly?

This report encourages the municipal governments of Atlantic Canada to help SMEs thrive and continue to make our local...

Funding Fairness: State of Workers’ Compensation Funding in 2024

Analysis on Workers’ compensation insurance.

Hard hats and hard times: Public construction impacts on small businesses

Hard hats and hard times: Public construction impacts on small businesses

This report analyzes construction’s profound impacts on SMEs and proposes a comprehensive construction mitigation plan...

Surplus of Opportunity: Tax Reduction in Alberta

Surplus of Opportunity: Tax Reduction in Alberta

This report analyzes the impact of lowering the personal income tax, small business tax rate, and insurance premium tax...

Atlantic property tax gap report

Atlantic property tax gap report

This report shines a light on the gap between residential and commercial property taxes across Atlantic Canada.

The State of Internal Trade: Canada’s Interprovincial Cooperation Report Card

The State of Internal Trade: Canada’s Interprovincial Cooperation Report Card

The 2024 edition of the report card grades federal, provincial, and territorial governments' interprovincial...

Featured Publications

Research

Monthly Business Barometer®

Our monthly survey tracks small business confidence, expectations and operating conditions in Canada.

Your Voice Survey August 2024

Your Voice Omnibus Survey

Every other month, CFIB members lend their opinions to 'Your Voice,' a survey exploring a variety of current topics. The latest takeaways are showcased in a series of informative charts that summarize these findings.

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The Main Street Quarterly

Timely economic analysis, including early short-term macroeconomic forecasts developed with our partner AppEco, our latest estimates of private sector job vacancies and a special look each quarter at some key small business questions and economic sectors.

InsightBiz Blog

Alberta's budget opportunity

How the province can reduce taxes and retain healthy financials.

International trade is booming, but not all Canadian businesses are cashing-in

Canadian SMEs and international trade

Empowering small businesses

The critical role of reducing taxes and costs

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Key Small Business Statistics

Enterprise Pulse Q2 2023

Enterprise Pulse

Q2 2024 - Entrepreneurship in Canada is improving, but still not fully back to pre-pandemic strength
Private sector job vacancies in Canada

Private Sector Job Vacancies in Canada

The job vacancy rate in Canada’s private sector in Q1 2024 dropped to 3.5%, slowly approaching its 2019 level (3.3%).

EP-2023-E

Employment Profile in Canada

Interactive report presenting a comprehensive overview of Canada’s employment landscape over the past decade.

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About CFIB Research & Economic Analysis

Our research is based on members' views, which are fully collected in-house through our various member surveys.

CFIB represents over 97,000 member businesses across Canada. Our membership reflects a diverse group of successful businesses of all sizes, in a wide range of industries, and in all regions of the country. All members are able to participate in our surveys and we operate using a one-member one-vote system.

We release exclusive research, often survey-based but also relying on a wide range of other methodologies, striving to produce clear, credible and compelling data and analysis that can support the success of independent business in Canada.

The CFIB research team is headed by Simon Gaudreault, Chief Economist and Vice-President, Research.