Edmonton’s small business community wants civic candidates to keep them in mind

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With Edmonton’s municipal election less than three weeks away, small businesses in the city are asking mayoral candidates to keep them in mind, while one business owner here in Chinatown hopes whoever is elected mayor will focus on crime. “There’s more awareness, but the occurrences of crime, I don’t think have slowed down,” said Chip Tang, the owner of Hong Kong Bakery. The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses tells CityNews that more than 70 per cent of small business owners in Alberta believe their municipality isn’t paying enough attention to their issues. The CFIB told CityNews on Wednesday that business owners in the city share the same concerns as most other Edmontonians in this year’s election. The CFIB report found that nearly 55 per cent of business owners in the province feel they’re treated unfairly by their local government.