A Celebration of the Community Futures Program October 3, 2018 Attendees

First Last Position Constituency Province Party 1 Pam Goldsmith-Jones MP West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country British Columbia Liberal 2 MP North Okanagan-Shuswap British Columbia Conservative 3 Dan Ruimy MP Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge British Columbia Liberal 4 Richard Cannings MP South Okanagan-West Kootenay British Columbia NDP 5 Patrice Finnigan MP Miramichi - Grand Lake New Brunswick Liberal 6 René Arseneault MP Madawaska-Restiguoche New Brunswick Liberal 7 Karen Ludwig MP New Brunswick Southwest New Brunswick Liberal 8 MP Acadie-Bathurst New Brunswick Liberal 9 Hunter Tootoo MP Nunavut Nunavut Independent 10 MP Glengarry-Prescott-Russell Ontario Liberal 11 Mike Bossio MP Hastings-Lennox and Addington Ontario Liberal 12 Carol Hughes MP Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing Ontario NDP 13 Jamie Schmale MP Haliburton--Brock Ontario Conservative 14 Rémi Massé MP Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia Quebec Liberal 15 MP Chicoutimi-Le Fjord Quebec Conservative 16 Stéphane Lauzon MP Argenteuil-La Petite-Nation Quebec Liberal 17 Jean R. Rioux MP Saint-Jean Quebec Liberal 18 Richard Hébert MP Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec Liberal 19 William Amos MP Pontiac Quebec Liberal 20 Denis Paradis MP Brome-Missisquoi Quebec Liberal 21 MP Souris-Moose Mountain Saskatchewan Conservative 22 Jean-Yves Duclos Minister Québec Quebec Liberal 23 Marg Ng Assistant Markham-Thornhill Ontario Liberal 24 Michel Massé Assistant Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia Quebec Liberal 25 Cathy Wagantall Assistant Yorkton-Melville Saskatchewan Conservative 26 Assistant Prince Albert Saskatchewan Conservative Presenters

CFNC President Wendy Smitka, Vice-President Daniel Dumas and MP Remi Masse speak to the 110 Attendees Photo Ops with MPs

Minister Duclos, MP Rémi Massé, Wendy Smitka, CFNC President with Hélène Deslaurier, MP Jean R. Rioux Daniel Dumas, CFNC Vice President presenting thank you gift to MP Rémi Massé Photo Ops with MPs

British Columbia – Wendy Smitka, Cheryl Johnson with MP Pam Goldsmith-Jones

New Brunswick – Alain Guitard with MP Wendy with MP Richard René Arsenault, MP Patrice Finnigan Cannings, and Cheryl and Line Doiron MP Dan Ruimy with Garry McKinnon and Daniel Dumas Photo Ops with MPs

Eastern Ontario – Rob Price with MP Eastern Ontario - Andrew Wallen, Patti Tallman, Mike Bossio and Mary Lynne MP Jamie Schmale, Heather Reid (Abbey Rutledge Gardens), Vince Killen, Peter Fredericks Statistics Canada Analysis

Performance indicators for firms with less than 100 employees CFP Assisted Firms Comparable Firms min max min max

Compounded Annual Growth in Employment 3.5% 8.0% 1.5% 2.9%

Compounded Annual Payroll Growth 6.7% 7.3% 3.3% 4.2% Business Survival Rates for the Fifth Year Following Entry 66.0% 80.0% 46.0% 52.0%

Compounded Annual Growth in Sales 6.6% 11.2% 4.3% 6.2% (1) Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec (CED) / Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev) / Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)/Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario

As part of the CFP's performance measurement strategy, Community Futures organizations provide a list of companies they have assisted to Statistics Canada for comparison with other companies with similar characteristics. The data presented in this table is taken from the latest study published in 2017.