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Session topic:
Other than money, how should governments best influence the direction and competitiveness of our economy?
Michel Brassard: Government trade missions should include local businesses
Brian Rizok:
Branka Kovacevic: I'm skeptical about this trade missions, I recently went on one to China. They are copying our ideas and not giving us the business. The government should facilitate development within our own borders.
Michel Brassard: Is there enough of a market in Canada to support business here?
Branka: We are going to change our philosophy on how we make a living. I told my employees that I have to lower their wages.
Michel: Should the government impose a wage freeze like Trudeau did?
Branka: In Texas they've lowered wages and the jobs are coming back.
Brian: You end up paying people under the table.
Michel: The government can't have any influence on the underground economy.
Brian: The WSIB has to be reasonable, but they are taking their regulations to another degree of "sanitation". They are arrogant. As a manufacturer we keep getting slammed. The government is in every pocket.
Michel: Should the government setup a "centre of excellence" in Windsor.
Branka: I don't employ 200 people, I employ 10 people and they all have steady work. But the big companies get all the help. I am paying taxes to support government grants to keep those big companies. If I make a mistake in my business I have to pay for my mistakes. Government has to have some packages for small businesses, I feel like I'm a micro sized company.
Brian: We are here, this is very big for us. I'm ready to take my moulds and go to Detroit and setup shop there. I don't sell to Canada, I only sell to the US. I've watched my friends go bankrupt in this city. There have been suicides.
Government govern with strings attached to their wrist. To get to the power, you owe special interest, and that is which really drive the agenda. If you govern you want to be re-elected. If you are not governing you aspire to the throne. In either case it takes many millions to get there.
I still think that in this imperfect system, governments need the vote and therefore the people must appeased. ONE MAN ONE VOTE, That is our only salvation.