The battle against red tape begins with local groups like the Brockville and District Chamber of Commerce, area businesspeople heard Wednesday as they launched into Small Business Month.

“We need to know where those pinpoints are,” Ontario Red Tape Reduction Minister Andrea Khanjin told a chamber of commerce breakfast meeting at the Brockville Country Club.

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“I need those ideas from you, where you get caught in the middle.”

The minister was the guest speaker alongside Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark, who delivered an abbreviated version of his annual Queen’s Park Update, an event usually held in February but postponed this year by a provincial election.

With red tape a perennial concern among small businesses, Khanjin had an attentiv

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