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Corinne Pohlmann

Corinne Pohlmann

Oct 22, 2026

22:02
Karen, go ahead.
22:05
I was just going to say that I think when you're an employer who wants to hire new young people, you know that part of your role is going to be to actually train that young person how to be an employee.
22:17
And I think, you know, when you go into those entry-level type of jobs, a lot of employers understand that that's a part of it.
22:24
Though as part of our research, we also try to tell employers who are hiring younger folks who may not have work experience, you know, to be a bit more patient, to be a bit more clear about the expectations of what it means to be on a job and those sorts of sort of tips and tricks that we provide.
22:40
But I haven't spoken to dozens and dozens of businesses over the years who have hired young people.
22:46
Many of them know that that's part of their role is to bring them in when they're 16 or 17 years old, train them on how to be an employee, and then they don't expect to keep them.
22:54
They know they'll move on to something else.

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40:29
And so giving them that financial flexibility, that resource flexibility to be able to keep doing that is going to really make a difference for them.
4:48
You're not only isolated by your province.
4:50
No, no, you're not.
4:52
you do have to pay those taxes.
4:53
So that would be the corporate income tax.
4:55
And you pay that based on the amount of money you make.
4:57
So it does fluctuate.
4:58
If you don't make any money, you don't pay it.
8:48
on tax on tax yeah
29:49
And what is the size of these businesses? And again, how does it even trickle down to our retail here and consumers?
29:59
Yeah, I mean, the businesses are really of all sizes, right? A lot of them are small, right down to the individuals who make their own jewelry, for example, and send them to customers directly in the United States, like an online business.
30:09
So an individual all the way up to businesses that have manufacturing plants that may be doing very specific types of products that they then send to either corporate customers or individuals in the United States.
30:21
So it's quite, again, spread out.
30:24
And of course, what does this mean for consumers? Well, right now, those costs are going to be borne by Americans because these are U.S.
30:31
tariffs.
30:32
But Canada has said that they will retaliate starting September 8th, if nothing, of course, happens between now and September 8th.
33:32
Corinne, I mean, part of the problem with this, a big part of the problem with this is the uncertainty it creates.

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