Owner of Vancouver restaurant Ebisu, Angela Du, poses for a portrait in the establishment on Robson Street on Aug. 27, 2020.Thousands of small businesses in B.C. and Alberta are begging the federal government to change the rules to ensure they can apply on their own for the federal government’s Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program, months after it was introduced.
That devastating answer came days after Ms. Du spent $1,000 scrambling to provide notarized statements on a weekend about the business’s revenue last year and this, as the company had requested. In Calgary, eight businesses have already closed in the popular Kensington neighbourhood because landlords refused to compromise on getting full rent, said the woman who manages the area’s business revitalization zone.She has sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on behalf of her small area pleading for the rent-relief program’s rules to be adjusted.
That low number is in contrast to the federal payroll-subsidy and loan programs, which almost 60 per cent of businesses have used in the two provinces, according to numbers collected by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business .
Is it really Hong Kong not participating or China?