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Ministère du Développement et de la Croissance économiques
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Ministry of Economic Development and Growth
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The Ministry of Economic Development and Growth was created on June 13, 2016 by the Premier of Ontario. In order to advance the key priority of jobs and growth, the ministry implemented the province's Business Growth Initiative, its economic strategy to fast-track Ontario's knowledge-based economy. The strategy committed $400 million to be allocated over the course of five years and leveraged Ontario's highly skilled workforce to compete through innovation. Additionally, the ministry led several strategies to action its mandated priorities.
The ministry was succeeded by the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade in 2018.
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The Ministry of Economic Development and Growth's key priorities were jobs and growth. The September 2016 Mandate letter for the ministry outlined the following priorities: creating an innovation-driven economy; supporting the scaling up of innovative and high growth companies; modernizing the regulatory system and reducing the cost of doing business; developing a provincial economic strategy; supporting Ontario businesses by improving internal trade in Canada; accelerating the growth of Ontario's social enterprise sector; and supporting the Climate Change Action Plan.
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This particular iteration of the ministry was created by the Premier of Ontario and announced in a press release on June 13, 2016.
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Act (Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1990, chapter M.27) is considered the enabling legislation of the ministry.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Government telephone directories, mandate letters, and government press releases for the years 2016-2018.
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Archivist(s):
Coffey