Engage & Empower: Defining and Engaging Community in Ontario’s Community Benefits Initiatives

Produced by the Mowat Centre at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto.Canada’s governments are investing billions of dollars in large infrastructure projects. If done well, this investment can generate significant social, economic and environmental value as well as empower communities to shape their own future – but only if communities are meaningfully engaged in all stages of the process. This is the main finding of Engage and Empower, a new report from the Mowat Centre