New survey shows no relief from rising costs for businesses ahead of BOC rate announcement: Canadian Chamber of Commerce
The Chief Economist of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Stephen Tapp, issued the following statement on the latest results from today’s data release of the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions (CSBC), a Canadian Chamber of Commerce/Statistics Canada initiative. “The top obstacles for Canadian businesses continues to be rising input costs, difficulties hiring workers, and supply chain challenges. Rising costs remain by far the number one obstacle for Canadian business right now,” said Tapp. “These cost pressures will continue to fuel inflation, which will add further pressure for the Bank of Canada to continue raising interest rates at a super-sized pace in their attempt to bring inflation under control,” he added.
| The big shift: Consumer power and payment choice in a post-COVID worldIn March 2020, Interac began studying the impact of COVID-19 on Canadians’ retail habits. Today, while panic buying has slowed and in-store shopping has returned, one thing is clear: Canadians’ retail expectations have changed. In a world of increasing local and global competition and decreasing margins, it is more important than ever for businesses to understand, meet and exceed those expectations. Canadians moving from cash to digital payment methods The move from cash to digital payment methods was well underway before the pandemic started. In less than a decade, the share of in-person cash transactions fell from 54 per cent in 2009 to 17 per cent in 2020. About Kawartha Lakes CFDF Kawartha Lakes Community Futures Development Corporation (KL CFDC) was founded in 1986 as the Victoria County Employment Development Group. Our goal is to create employment through strategic capital investments in small and medium sized enterprises, support entrepreneurs in the development of new, innovative and disruptive technologies, provide innovative business counselling and support opportunities and develop partnerships and dynamic community economic development initiatives in the City of Kawartha Lakes. Our operational funding is provided by the Federal Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) through the Community Futures Program. |