And the winner of the Golden Scissors Award is...

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Golden Scissors Award

Winner and Honourable Mentions

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• Highlights: Golden Scissors Award finalists announced

As Red Tape Awareness Week^TM comes to a close, the winner of the inaugural Golden Scissors Award has been decided. This new annual CFIB award recognizes an individual who has successfully motivated or demonstrated leadership and courage, and produced meaningful and positive results in cutting red tape for small business.

...and the winner is: the Honourable Kevin Falcon for cutting red tape for small business by more than 40% and entrenching systemic and unprecedented reforms through the Regulatory Reporting Act.

Golden Scissors Award Winner

Honourable Kevin Falcon and Laura Jones

"Minister Falcon has clearly shown small-business and customer-focused values that the new award is intended to recognize and celebrate. Hopefully, the Award will help draw attention to the need for more policy-makers across the country to find innovative and results-driven approaches to regulatory reform" says Laura Jones, CFIB Senior Vice-President, Research, Economics and Western Canada.

A panel of judges, comprised of four senior-level CFIB employees representing different region of the country and one small business member, chose the winner from dozens of nominations from across Canada.

The judges also awarded honourable mentions to:

• Hon. Jean-Pierre Blackburn (Minister of National Revenue, Ottawa, 2008 to 2010) for showing leadership by implementing a new policy that required Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) business-line call centre staff to provide an individual-specific ID number at the start of each call. 
• Hon Maxime Bernier (Minister of Industry, Government of Canada, 2006 to 2007) and Hon. Diane Ablonczy (Minister of State, Small Business and Tourism, Government of Canada, 2007 to 2010) for the development and launch of the BizPaL project. 
• His Worship Frank Leonard (Mayor of Saanich), His Worship Stewart Young (Mayor of Langford),  Paul Murray (Director of Finance, City of Saanich), and David Duke (now retired Municipal Administrator, City of Saanich) for the creation of a system of regional business licenses in the Capital Region District surrounding Victoria, B.C.