Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2014-11-20 09:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Julia Deans",
        "fr": "Mme Julia Deans"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3912651\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you so much for coming to the reception yesterday evening. I understand there were about seven votes in the House, so we lost a lot of people who were going to come. The young entrepreneurs had a fantastic time and really loved seeing one another. Hopefully, you can come next year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3912652\" data-originallang=\"en\">In terms of being where the entrepreneurs are and being available to them\u2014how they need us\u2014using technology is obviously very key, as well as having a presence on the street. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3912653\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I think the one thing I would also want you to be thinking about, for those of us who come from places like Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal, is that there are a lot of people on the ground. There are lots of avenues for young people wanting to start businesses. But that's not the case across the country. An organization like ours, where we're available to people in Yellowknife\u2014I'm going to Prince Rupert right after this meeting\u2014 there are a lot of places where people have no resources at all. There's no accelerator in Saskatchewan that I'm aware of, so we need to think about how to make sure young people, wherever they are in Canada, can access these services. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3912654\" data-originallang=\"en\">In Quebec, the government's done quite a lot to make that available. It's not the case in other places, so I think all of us who care about young entrepreneurs and having vibrant communities right across the country should be thinking about whether those people are going to be able to get these services, particularly in light of retiring business owners. I'm sure all of you are very aware that we're going to have 60% of our small business owners retiring in the next few years, and there are communities that are going to lose their dry cleaners and their HVAC technicians and so on. If we don't have services there to help them get set up, they will leave.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3912651\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup d'\u00eatre venu \u00e0 notre r\u00e9ception d'hier soir. Je sais qu'il y a eu quelque chose comme sept votes \u00e0 la Chambre, ce qui nous a priv\u00e9s de bien des gens qui devaient \u00eatre pr\u00e9sents. Les jeunes entrepreneurs se sont beaucoup amus\u00e9s et ont vraiment appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 de pouvoir ainsi se rencontrer. Esp\u00e9rons que nous pourrons r\u00e9p\u00e9ter l'exp\u00e9rience l'an prochain.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3912652\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ce qui est des mesures \u00e0 prendre pour se rapprocher des entrepreneurs et se mettre \u00e0 leur disposition, il va de soi que la technologie est tr\u00e8s utile, mais il est aussi important d'avoir pignon sur rue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3912653\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a un autre aspect que je vous demanderais de consid\u00e9rer. Dans des villes comme Vancouver, Toronto ou Montr\u00e9al, il y a bien des gens sur place et bien des possibilit\u00e9s pour les jeunes qui veulent se lancer en affaires. Mais ce n'est pas la m\u00eame chose partout au pays. Une organisation comme la n\u00f4tre doit donc \u00eatre active dans des endroits comme Yellowknife \u2014 et Prince Rupert o\u00f9 je me rendrai apr\u00e8s cette s\u00e9ance \u2014 o\u00f9 les gens n'ont acc\u00e8s \u00e0 aucune ressource. Ainsi, il n'existe pas \u00e0 ma connaissance d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rateur d'entreprises en Saskatchewan. Nous devons donc r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir aux moyens \u00e0 mettre en oeuvre pour que les jeunes de tout le Canada aient acc\u00e8s \u00e0 ces services.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3912654\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au Qu\u00e9bec, le gouvernement a multipli\u00e9 les efforts pour rendre ces services accessibles. Comme ce n'est pas le cas partout au Canada, tous ceux qui comme nous veulent soutenir les jeunes entrepreneurs et favoriser le dynamisme des collectivit\u00e9s de tout le pays devraient s'interroger sur la fa\u00e7on de leur faciliter l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 ces services, surtout dans le contexte des propri\u00e9taires d'entreprise qui approchent de la retraite. Je suis persuad\u00e9e que vous savez tous que 60 % de nos propri\u00e9taires de petites entreprises vont prendre leur retraite au cours des prochaines ann\u00e9es et qu'il y a ainsi des localit\u00e9s qui vont perdre leur nettoyeur ou leur sp\u00e9cialiste en chauffage et climatisation, par exemple. Si nous n'offrons pas des services pour aider de nouvelles entreprises \u00e0 voir le jour, ces ressources seront perdues.</p>"
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