Yup....more round tables,that should do it alright!

Gordo's taking Colin's stance;another study

I am wondering whether the diameter of the table is smaller than the table for big business.

I would think it needs to be bigger since there are far more small businesses than there are big businesses.

;-)

I wander how much Mr. Frizzell or his company has contributed to the "Get us elected again" fund???

Good one owl!

If any of you have participated in the Round Table Discussions for Small Business, you might have something more constructive to say. Chester

Chester .....

I really do not care who participated. That is not the measure of their success.

The measure of the success is what issues did they tackle, were they successful, and even more so, were they successful where others have failed.

Here are the summaries of three consultations.

http://www.smallbusinessroundtable.ca/summaries.htm#pa

The two key issues seem to boil down to:
1. labour skills training
2. government red tape

Do we need a roundtable for that revelation? I think a history book would have covered it better.

So, what will they be doing about it? Will the issue be resolved in 5 years?

BTW, labour skills training used to be done by businesses when I first started in the labour market at a previous skills shortage time. There were no such things as community colleges.

Now they want others to do the training for them, then complain about the qulity of training and the cost of business taxes.

Hello!!!! Does anyone see a connection here and a failure by those sitting around the table?

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7718031331570666567&q=grown+men+dont+cry&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

Owl, I couldn't agree more with your staements on skill training. When I served my apprenticeship the businesses underwrote the training. Now it seems it falls to the government and in many cases the trainees.

Just for the info of several of the posters on this site, the unions also participated in some of the costs and training in those days.

Those round tables are a b*tch to get through the door.
It's no wonder nobody else is using them !

Aw Haa! I new it was the unions fault!

If the unions had to pay, there would naturally be a shortage of people getting an apprenticeship. I looked into the Boilermaker trade where they were in big demand and the union said no way. The union wasn't looking at the future, just looking after their little circle of friends.

little circle of friends vs small round table.............hmmmm.

Is there any connection here?