I have often heard entrepreneurs complain that government creates so much paperwork and regulation that it gobbles too much of their time and money. Over the years, bureaucrats wanting to make their mark have made one regulation after another. Jurisdictions overlap and each apply their own standards. Provinces want taxes remitted at this time. The feds at another time. The municipalities want their chunk of flesh and such and such information. Then there's this standard to comply with, and that licence to get, and on and on it goes.

That's why efforts to lower red tape are good. Saskatchewan's government says it wants to make it easier for businesses there than anywhere else. Let's hope they follow through and the other provinces follow suit.