School Board Funding
Outlines the chamber’s position on the issue.
ISSUE: The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has become a vast provincial government bureaucracy that is quickly becoming a danger to the Ontario government, taxpayers, businesses and insured workers. In fact, over the course of the last 25 years, the WSIB have had significant challenges fulfilling its obligations. BACKGROUND: In the 2009-2010 Annual Report…
Chamber highlights four unanswered questions On Thursday, May 12, 2016, the OCC network sent a letter to the Hon. Glen Murray, Ontario Minister of Environment and Climate Change, outlining four critical questions that have yet to be answered regarding the province’s incoming cap and trade system. These questions are: What will be the economic impact…
Your chamber recently sent a joint letter to Premier Wynne, Honourable Glen Murray, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and Honourable Glenn Thibeault, Minister of Energy. This letter was signed by five Northern Ontario chambers and expresses Northern Ontario specific concerns about the incoming cap and trade system. Read our letter here.
On Monday, January 15, 2018, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) provided the Ontario government with 11 recommendations for the upcoming provincial budget that will help businesses manage costs and secure the province’s competitive advantage. The submission, presented to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, calls on the government to implement taxation reforms…
In recent years, there have been increased calls for implementing a national pharmacare program in Canada. At their annual meeting in July 2017, the Premiers requested that the federal government engage in discussions on establishing a national pharmacare program. In addition, in January 2018 the Ontario government launched a new children and youth pharmacare plan…