The Honourable Maxime Bernier, the Federal Minister of Industry, welcomed the launch of BizPaL in Saskatoon. BizPaL is an innovative project designed to help Canadian businesses save time when accessing licensing and permit information from multiple levels of government.
This unique partnership between federal, provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments provides entrepreneurs and business people in Saskatoon with simplified access to the information they need to launch or grow their businesses.
"Canada's new government is proud to be a partner in the new BizPaL initiative - a service that will speed up the licensing and permit processes for businesses and entrepreneurs," said Minister Bernier. "By working with the Province of Saskatchewan and the City of Saskatoon, we are launching a very useful technological initiative that will simplify government paperwork processes."
"BizPaL is an important part of our new provincial regulatory and service enhancement initiative to make it easier for entrepreneurs to start and expand their business in Saskatchewan," said Eric Cline, Saskatchewan Minister of Industry and Resources. "Over the next year, we will continue to partner with municipalities to expand the BizPaL service to more of the province."
"We are excited to be able to offer BizPaL to the business people in Saskatoon," said Donald Atchison, Mayor of the City of Saskatoon. "This innovation reinforces the city's philosophy that 'we're open for business.' Customer service is so important to us, and BizPaL is just another example of cutting through the red tape."