When the GST holiday went into effect just before winter late last year, Daniel Edler says his ice cream shop didn’t exactly benefit from an avalanche of sales.
“I didn’t see customers pouring in just to save a little bit of GST,” said Edler, owner of 49 Below Ice Cream in Victoria.
While ice cream isn’t a hot commodity during the cold months, Edler was not alone among small business owners.
Only five per cent of small businesses across Canada saw stronger sales this past January compared to the same month last year, according to a Feb. 11 report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
“We had to
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