Industry Canada Findings
In late 2006, Industry Canada started a series of briefings on what paperwork burden, referred to as "Red Tape", meant to small businesses and briefed on the Statistics Canada Survey of Regulatory Compliance Costs as more findings from the latter got released.
The Small Business View of Red Tape was released in November 2006 and focused on preliminary results on how small and medium-sized businesses perceived overall changes in the cost of compliance and the information obligations they considered most burdensome. It also reported on the number of submissions prepared by the survey population and transmitted to government for the selected information obligations examined in the Statistics Canada survey.
Survey Briefing #2 provided estimates on the average internal and average external cost of compliance for 12 key federal, provincial, and municipal regulatory requirements. The results were further broken down by employee size of establishment to facilitate comparisons in compliance costs estimates across size categories.
