{"time": "2015-05-28 10:00:00", "attribution": {"en": "Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, GP)", "fr": "Mme Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, PV)"}, "content": {"en": "

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-682, An Act to amend the Department of Industry Act (small businesses).

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Mr. Speaker, it is my honour today, along with my colleague from Thunder Bay\u2014Superior North, to present for the consideration of the House a bill to, for the first time, create a system of orderly consideration of the impact on small businesses of legislation, regulations, and policy.

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This is loosely based on something I first heard about from colleagues in the Green Party in the European Parliament, where they have what they call \u201cthink small first\u201d, a lens that looks at the policies being undertaken by the European Parliament to see what impact, unintended, there might be on small businesses.

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This act would require the Minister of Industry to consider whether measures require that analysis. It is essentially similar to an environmental impact statement, only this would be a small business impact statement so that small and medium-sized enterprises would not inadvertently have further hurdles put in their way through unintended consequences of government policy.

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I hope that this bill will receive support at first reading and proceed to second reading and that it will eventually become the law of Canada.

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(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)

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demande \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter le projet de loi C-682, Loi modifiant la Loi sur le minist\u00e8re de l'Industrie (petites entreprises).

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\u2014 Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, mon coll\u00e8gue de Thunder Bay\u2014Superior-Nord et moi avons l'honneur de pr\u00e9senter \u00e0 la Chambre un projet de loi qui, pour la premi\u00e8re fois, vise \u00e0 cr\u00e9er un syst\u00e8me permettant d'examiner convenablement les incidences sur les petites entreprises des lois, des r\u00e8glements et des politiques.

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Ce projet de loi s'inspire librement d'un principe dont j'ai entendu parler pour la premi\u00e8re fois aupr\u00e8s de coll\u00e8gues du Parti vert qui si\u00e8gent au Parlement europ\u00e9en. Ce principe, qui s'appelle \u00ab Penser aux PME d'abord \u00bb, vise \u00e0 examiner les politiques que le Parlement europ\u00e9en envisage d'adopter afin de d\u00e9terminer leurs incidences impr\u00e9vues sur les petites entreprises.

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Ce projet de loi obligerait le ministre de l\u2019Industrie \u00e0 d\u00e9terminer si des mesures exigent cette analyse. En gros, il est semblable \u00e0 un \u00e9nonc\u00e9 des incidences environnementales, sauf qu'il s'agirait plut\u00f4t d'\u00e9valuer les incidences sur les PME pour emp\u00eacher que celles-ci doivent faire face \u00e0 de nouveaux obstacles pouvant d\u00e9couler de cons\u00e9quences impr\u00e9vues de politiques gouvernementales.

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J'esp\u00e8re que ce projet de loi fera l'objet d'un appui \u00e0 l'\u00e9tape de la premi\u00e8re lecture, qu'il passera \u00e0 l'\u00e9tape de la deuxi\u00e8me lecture et qu'il deviendra une loi du Canada.

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(Les motions sont r\u00e9put\u00e9es adopt\u00e9es, le projet de loi est lu pour la premi\u00e8re fois et imprim\u00e9.)

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