Buying enterprise permits in Saskatoon could be a weeks-long course of.
The Chamber’s proposed “Automatic Yes Tool Kit” goals to get companies rising their operations and creating jobs as a substitute of navigating paperwork.
Higher Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce (GSCC) CEO Jason Aebig says implementing these adjustments to allow procedures would set up Saskatoon as a pacesetter in lowering pink tape for companies.
“Owners really would have more time to focus on the growth of their businesses,” says Aebig, “on creating the jobs we need them to create instead of chasing approvals or juggling time frames or incurring the hard costs of those delays or even navigating bureaucracy.”
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The “toolkit” includes the elimination of some low-risk permits altogether, streamlining others and setting a agency deadline for approvals.
The Canadian Federation of Unbiased Enterprise (CFIB) says the time entrepreneurs spend leaping by means of authorized hoops is healthier spent working their enterprise.
“It’s spending the average small business about 32 business days a year,” says Tyler Slobogian, Senior Coverage Analyst for CFIB, “kind of going through excessive paperwork, regulations, red tape, which could be spent on, you know, whether it’s extending their operations, hiring more staff, many other things to, you know, basically help every economy across Canada.”
Amid ongoing American tariffs, Slobogian says the air of uncertainty in Canada is simply another excuse Saskatoon may stand to profit from these insurance policies.
“The more businesses that we can get kind of up and running quicker and more efficiently, I think that would be beneficial for everywhere across Canada and specifically in Saskatoon and Regina. I think, you know, we need to definitely contribute to and try to make Saskatchewan a more business-friendly place, and this is just a perfect example of how we can do that.”
The initiative comes as 13 Saskatoon enterprise organizations shaped the Mixed Enterprise Group, with a purpose to make Saskatoon probably the most business-friendly metropolis in Canada.
