Saskatchewan organizations outline wish list ahead of the provincial budget [Video]

Saskatchewan’s provincial budget is set to be announced Wednesday at the legislature and several organizations have outlined what they’d like to see.

The Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce is hoping for more focus on small and medium sized businesses, saying those businesses create a large portion of Saskatchewan’s GDP, payrolls and trade.

“According to the Canadian Chamber, 98 per cent of businesses in our country and province qualify as small businesses with micro firms by far the most common. This underscores the need to develop a business climate and regulatory environment that boosts the resilience of small businesses. Put simply, the survival of small business is a big issue for our city and province,” the chamber said in a February release.

The chamber listed several measures it would like to see implemented that it has pushed for in the past year:

• create a new small and midsize enterprise investment tax credit
• freeze the Small Business Corporate …