Ontario strikes panel to examine business support

Ontario's Ministry of Finance has assembled an expert panel to review the province's $4 billion investment in business support programs. The panel will be chaired by Dr Margaret Dalziel, associate professor, Univ of Waterloo's Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre and includes Dr David Wolfe, professor of political science, Univ of Toronto and Dr Douglas Cumming, Ontario Research Chair in Economics and Cross-Cultural Studies, York Univ. The panel will examine the programs according to criteria established by the Jobs and Prosperity Council and others, aimed at improving the province's productivity, exports and innovation performance and attracting new strategic investments....