Canada Job Grant / Where does business stand on the ?

As the premiers exited their meetings today in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., several of them added fuel to the fire lit earlier by Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne, when she announced that provincial and territorial leaders are united in their opposition to the federal government’s Canada Jobs Grant…

But what about the business community? Alward said the private sector doesn’t like the jobs grant idea either. “This is not only a message that has been conveyed by provincial and territorial governments,” he said. “This is a message that is taking place right across the country from the business community as well.”

But Kenney’s office offered a pretty powerful rejoinder to that claim—a list of business groups that endorsed the Canada Jobs Grant last spring, after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced the three-way, equally split, federal-provincial-employer formula for subsidizing training.

Among the business groups on Kenney’s list of “supportive stakeholders”: the Canadian Electricity Association, the Canada Manufacturers & Exporters, the Canadian Media Production Association, the Canadian Propane Association, the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association.  Along with those groups, Kenney’s backgrounder quotes the likes of TD Bank and Bank of Montréal economists, and the heads of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, plus a raft of others.

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via Where does business stand on the Canada Jobs Grant? – Capital Read, John Geddes – Macleans.ca.