Small businesses facing hard decisions about CEBA loan forgiveness deadline
With a major deadline to repay a pandemic era loan on the horizon, many small businesses say they're weighing their options but they wish the federal government had given them more time.
![Small businesses facing hard decisions about CEBA loan forgiveness deadline](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7063088.1702939184!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/rod-castro-ottawa-dec-18-2023.jpg)
![Rod Castro, who owns the restaurants 10 Fourteen and Pubblico Eatery in Ottawa, says he hasn't yet decided whether to refinance his CEBA loan or not. A man with a beard, wearing a longsleeve black t-shirt, sits by the window in a restaurant.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7063088.1702939184!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/rod-castro-ottawa-dec-18-2023.jpg)
With a major deadline to repay a pandemic era loan on the horizon, many small businesses say they're weighing their options but they wish the federal government had given them more time.