The seven organizations combined will spend more than $2 billion in 2023-24 while employing nearly 2,000 civil servants.
private sector investment
April 19, 2023
8:00AM
Green technologies and related manufactured goods comprise less than 1 per cent of Canada's GDP.
August 20, 2021
9:03AM
Government officials face very different incentives than people in the private sector.
April 8, 2021
9:39AM
Capital is mobile and will flow to jurisdictions with sound regulatory regimes and competitive fiscal policies.
April 19, 2016
3:00AM
Growth of U.S. government spending and borrowing might crowd out private-sector investment in the U.S. from Canada.
January 29, 2015
12:00PM
One of the more persistent myths about prosperity is that it results purely from luck. Often, commentators credit the mere presence of oil, gas, potash and other natural resources for Western Canada’s recent (and presently fading) boom in investment, jobs and government revenues.
November 21, 2014
9:00AM
When Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced a budget update and a revised, lower forecast for provincial economic growth, it was yet another piece of evidence that Ontario’s economy is sluggish. But Ontario’s problems run deeper than just one fiscal update from one finance minister.