Sounds like Hydro costs are a bigger problem for small businesses, I wonder if any of them have taken advantage of the subsidies and switched to energy efficient devices. Many small businesses are inefficient in many ways but like to blame labour laws and workers for their hardships. The truth in many cases is they underreport incomes and find ways to rip off their underpaid employees. With burgers in Toronto al $15 dollars+ in a restaurant and everything else even higher it's hard to believe that a full restaurant is not making money, unless of course it's being mismanaged or they are underrepresenting income. I would imagine rents are probably the biggest costs anyways. The libertarians on here would say boo hoo to the restauranteurs if they complained about high rents over high wages.