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Cycle: Budget 2009
Source of Summary Information:
Annex B: Table B2 and B3
Key Information for the Government's Progress Reports to
Assist Parliamentary Monitoring and Oversight of Budget 2009
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
 
Areas: Small Business, Enterprises, Communities
Goal: Action to Support Businesses in Communities
 
If the desired outcome is to:

• To help workers, communities and businesses in Southern
  Ontario position themselves to take advantage of opportunities, as
  economic growth recovers.
• Help mitigate the short-term impacts of restructuring in
  communities … provided through regional development agencies.

Through

• Southern Ontario Development Agency  
• Community Adjustment Fund

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Then

• What should we be watching?
• What evidence would prove that these goals have been achieved?
• Are these the goals we should be aiming for?

 
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