Chamber Provincial Pre-Budget Submission 2015

The chamber’s 2015 provincial pre-budget submission focuses on how the province can enhance competitiveness, economic growth and employment. The submission brings forth a number of key priorities: Ring of Fire, provincial debt and deficit, pension reform, energy pricing, infrastructure development in Northern Ontario, the skills gap and immigration. For more information read our submission here.

Ring of Fire Report Card 2015

(March 2015) A new report from the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce finds that permit delays, an absence of infrastructure, and intergovernmental quarrelling have stalled development in Ontario’s Ring of Fire, the mineral resource-rich region in the province’s Far North. The report, Where are we Now? A Report Card…

Ontario Retirement Pension Plan Coalition Letter: Chamber Network leads employer coalition to push for expanded exemptions

(June 2, 2015) The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC), and a coalition of major Ontario employers are calling on the provincial government to broaden its definition of a comparable pension plan under the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), to be implemented in 2017. In a letter…