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that advocates for 110,000 independent businesses across Canada. She is responsible for CFIB’s legislative, communications, research, and marketing functions.Since joining CFIB in 2003, Ms. Jones has spearheaded several high-profile campaigns on behalf of small businesses, including creating CFIB’s annual Red Tape Awareness WeekTM and Small Business Every Day Campaign. She has authored a number studies on regulation, including papers for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Mercatus Centre, and CFIB.Ms. Jones has been providing advice to Canadian governments on effective regulatory reform for more than a decade served on several federal and provincial regulatory committees. Currently, she serves as Chair of the federal External Advisory Committee on Regulatory Competitiveness. She is currently on the board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and CFIB.Ms. Jones received her B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University. She and her husband live in Vancouver with their three spirited children.

and an M.Sc. (Econ.) in Geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has made his career in the field of environment, health, and safety in the minerals, oil, and gas industry and is currently working as an environmental consultant in the field of environmental management systems. From 1997 to 1998, Mr Arman worked at the Fraser Institute as a Research Economist. While there, he was co-author of the The Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies Operating in Canada (Fall 1997) and did the initial research and writing for Provincial Economic Freedom in Canada.