Emerging Stronger 2015

Produced by the Mowat Centre at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto.The fourth edition of the Emerging Stronger agenda comes at a critical time for Ontario. Ontario is projected to be among the leading Canadian provinces in GDP growth in 2015. However, our recovery from the economic tumult over the past five years is not assured. Many challenges identified in previous iterations of Emerging Stronger remain. This series of reports identifies five priority areas where Ontario’s business, government, and civic leaders should focus their efforts in revitalizing the province’s economy: fostering a culture of innovation; assembling a 21st-century workforce; putting public finances on a fiscally sustainable path; diversifying export markets; and identifying and leveraging new and existing competitive advantages