BC Gets an ‘A’ For Red Tape Reduction
CFIB’s Laura Jones presents report card to MLA Shirley Bond – photo 250News
Prince George, B.C.- For the fourth straight year, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has given B.C. an ‘A’ for it’s continued commitment to hold the line on red tape.
It is Red Tape Awareness Week in Canada.
“BC sets the gold standard in Canada” says CFIB executive Vice President Laura Jones. She says the province has reduced red tape by 42% since it first made a commitment to cut red tape. She says the Province has also continued to measure its red tape to ensure it doesn’t allow any “regulatory creep” to reduce the gains it has made.
“Red tape can literally choke small business” says Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism, and Skills Training. She notes red tape can bog down a small business, when owner/operators find themselves filling out pages and pages of documents, when they should be focusing on their business and their customers.
At a special event at the Topaz Bead Gallery in Prince George this morning, Jones presented MLA Shirley Bond the Minister with the report card which shows BC at the top of the class when it comes to reducing red tape, Quebec, Ontario and the Federal Government are next in line with a B+. While saying it is impressive that the BC government has cut red tape, Jones says she is even more impressed that the province continues to measure its level of red tape even though it has surpassed its initial reduction goal.
“Laura is an important reminder to Government, on a regular basis, of the importance of small business to the economy” says Minister Bond.
Bond says it is important that people realize the red tape reduction is not a reduction in regulation for health, safety or the environment “Those are absolutely essential regulations that protect people’s health and safety and the environment. All of those things are critical to our province, and we are actually known for very very stringent regulation when it comes to the environment.” She says an example of red tape reduction would include things like, a rule that stipulated the paint colours for certain things or the paper work and documentation that small business must complete.
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But red tape employs bureaucrats!
Haha, JB, that was my thought as well! Sometimes I think that we have red tape for no other purpose than job creation in Government. It’s a bit like the empire building that seems to go on in all levels of Government
Less red tape! Less bureaucracy! Sounds good to me!
Pretty short on actual examples of where this red tape has been reduced.
One would have thought we had evolved enough as a society and in our institutions to understand the issue of more or less regulation is more nuanced than can be distilled into the pejorative “red tape”. Or maybe it is not. Perhaps folks would prefer anarchy, or a further expansion of the corporate tyranny that continues to grow and dominate our world. If so, we certainly deserve to be enslaved!
And where indeed, Palopu, has “red tape” or perhaps “oversight” been reduced and how has this benefited business interest or the broader public good?
Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 @ 10:47 AM by Palopu
Pretty short on actual examples of where this red tape has been reduced.
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Small business can pretty much do all the government related stuff they need to do online these days. That saves a tonne of time, red tape and the joy of not haven’t to deal with the civil service face to face is second to none.
I agree axman,
WHO dreams this crap up.ONCE a given permit is in place this govt. does absolutely zippo to check if rules or regs are being followed and if an infraction is found it is just swept under the rug!
expansion of the corporate tyranny that continues to grow and dominate our world
As opposed to left wing social tyranny?
We DO have red tape to employ bureaucrats, that undoubtedly is the main reason for most of it. And then the bureaucrats remind us that they are not ‘experts’ in whatever field they’re supposed to be regulating, and it is incumbent upon us lesser mortals to employ credentialed ‘professionals’ to keep their bureaucratic butts out of the crack when it comes to getting approvals for anything. But what else could we do when we live in a world where we’ve told the poor things that there’ll be ‘jobs’ waiting for all of them when they finish their university education, and then there aren’t?
Can anyone say Mt. Polley, ? that’s my take ..
Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 @ 1:09 PM by thedogs
Can anyone say Mt. Polley, ? that’s my take ..
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Yeah, that Tuck Take would have held the dam together.
“Can anyone say Mt. Polley, ? that’s my take ..”
I’d invite you to read and comprehend the last paragraph of this article.
“Red Tape Awareness Week in Canada” .. really? It seems there has to be a “week” for everything these days. What’s next? “Don’t be aware of anything” week?
I literally burst out laughing when I read this article. If only Minister Bond and her colleagues could manage the same thing with the Provincial Government. lol I am truly glad that the small business owner sees some benefits though.
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