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From Challenges to Opportunities

The Newcomer Entrepreneurial Experience in Canada.

Impact of the U.S.-Canada tariff situation on businesses

CFIB’s survey of 2,200+ small business owners reveals how they’re navigating growing U.S.-Canada trade tensions.

Breaking ground: A jurisdictional update on housing initiatives to reduce red tape

CFIB’s 2025 report provides a comprehensive jurisdictional scan of the initiatives undertaken by federal, provincial...

Red Tape Report Card

Provincial Red Tape Report Card

The 2025 Red Tape Report Card grades three major areas of regulatory performance: regulatory accountability, regulatory...

Canada's Red Tape Report

The cost of regulation from all three levels of government to Canadian businesses totalled $38.8 billion in 2020. The...

Funding Fairness: State of Workers’ Compensation Funding in 2024

Analysis on Workers’ compensation insurance.

Removing roadblocks Unlocking small business capital investment

Removing roadblocks: Unlocking small business capital investment

This report examines capital investment trends and projections in Canada.

Business Barometer®, Retrospective 2024

Interactive report on annualized data from the Monthly Business Barometer - 2023

Counting Constraints: A Comprehensive Count of Canada's Regulatory Requirements

Counting Constraints: A Comprehensive Count of Canada's Regulatory Requirements

In this report, CFIB has estimated the number of regulatory requirements (or restrictions) within each jurisdiction’s...

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Monthly Business Barometer®

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

Your Voice Omnibus Survey - January 2025 (2 in 5 of small businesses faced admin hurdles as a result GST/HST holiday - Additional administrative workload is 41% - Reprogramming point-of-sale systems and associated costs is 40%)

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.

Firms that trade internationally anticipate that a US-Canada trade war will have severe impacts on their operations

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

The uncertainty hits main street harder than tariffs

Canadian SMEs and US tarrifs uncertainty

Navigating the Looming U.S.-Canada Tariffs

The Impact on Canadian SMEs and Their Next Steps

Alberta's budget opportunity

How the province can reduce taxes and retain healthy financials.

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Key Small Business Statistics

Enterprise Pulse September 2024

Enterprise Pulse

Q2 2024 - Entrepreneurship in Canada is improving, but still not fully back to pre-pandemic strength
Canadian Job Vacancies Trends Q4 2024

Private Sector Job Vacancies in Canada

The private sector job vacancy rate in Canada edged down to 2.7% in 2024 Q4, down by 0.9 percentage points on a yearly basis.

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 100,000 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.