Small Business

+60% lobbying (2024→2025)

1 MP counts Small Business as their top lobbying subject, across 10 meetings on the federal registry. No MP hears about it more than Amanpreet Gill, with 10 meetings. Lobbying on this subject rose 60% from 2024 to 2025.

1 MPs
10 lobbying meetings
19,256 lobbying registrations
8,027 parliamentary speeches

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Party Breakdown

Conservative1 (100%)

By Province

Alberta1

Lobbying Activity by Year

200810
200945
2010258
2011218
2012244
2013251
2014386
2015193
2016659
2017820
2018687
2019556
20201,050
2021870
2022737
2023657
20241,253
20252,006
2026 (partial)1,802

Lobbying Pipeline

How lobbying on this topic flows through Parliament

Registrations19,256
Briefing notes4,993
Parliament speeches8,027
Question Period111
42% of lobbying registrations get mentioned in Parliament.

Most Active Speakers

Right Hon. Justin Trudeau153
Mr. Kevin Lamoureux121

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Recent Parliamentary Speeches

Brad Vis2026-09-21
Small Business

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, one in five small businesses are in weak or critical condition. They are calling on the government to lower costs and improve small business competitiveness. Conservatives have identified over $150 billion in savings that could lower the overall tax burden for Canadians and small busine…

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Hon. Mélanie Joly2026-09-21
Small Business

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, we are always there for small businesses, making sure that they can be competitive. That is why many of them will be able to benefit from the new mega deduction that was announced by the Prime Minister last week, which will help many companies expense 100% of their investment in year on…

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Brad Vis2026-09-21
Small Business

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, let me give an example. The women entrepreneurship loan fund was supposed to help women start and grow their businesses. After filing an ATIP that took 915 days to receive, I learned that the Women's Enterprise Organizations of Canada met only 6% of application targets and 7% of loan ta…

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Marie-Gabrielle Ménard2026-09-21
Small Business

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, I first want to welcome all of my colleagues back to the House. The Minister of Small Business and I spent the summer holding consultations with a strong focus on women entrepreneurship. What we can say is that the strategy to grow our economy cannot succeed without the full participati…

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Brad Vis2026-06-17
Small Business

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House we are incredibly worried. Statistics Canada reported on May 29 that “business capital investment fell 0.7% in the first quarter of 2026, the fifth consecutive quarterly decline”. After years of policies that have left small business owners struggling, will the…

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