Recommendations:
- Recommendation 1: That the Government of Canada provide tax and other incentives to
worker co-operatives in harmony with incentives provided to Employee Ownership Trusts – our focus. - Recommendation 2: That the Government support CWCF’s Building Community Resiliency program to maintain and create jobs and businesses, primarily through conversions to worker co- operatives, with a focus on equity-denied groups.
- Recommendation 3: That the Government amend the Income Tax Act in order to create tax fairness for worker co-operatives.
- Recommendation 4: That the Government implement the recommendations from the Social Innovation and Social Finance (SI/SF) Strategy, per the submission from the Canadian CED Network (CCEDNet).