The impact of investment incentives on manufacturing change: the georgian bay region of ontario

TLDR: This paper examined the relationship between Canadian industrial location policy and manufacturing change in the Georgian Bay region of Ontario and found that incentives had a substantial immediate direct effect on the volume and structure of regional manufacturing, both in absolute terms and in relation to trends in the provincial economy.

Abstract: Relations between Canadian industrial location policy and manufacturing change in the Georgian Bay region of Ontario are examined. To span the pre- and post-policy periods, a census of manufacturing establishments was constructed from 1961 to 1975. Its analysis reveals that incentives had a substantial immediate direct effect on the volume and structure of regional manufacturing, both in absolute terms and in relation to trends in the provincial economy. As a catalyst for self-sustaining regional development and improved regional economic well-being, however, the programme's results are more equivocal. Ce travail examine les rapports entre la politique canadienne de la location des industries et les changements dans les manufactures dans la region de la Baie de Georgie. Afin de couvrir les periodes qui precedent et suivent l' introduction de cette politique, nous avons fait un recensernent des etablissements industriels de 1961 a 1975. L' analyse de cette information demontre que les stimulants eurent de facon immediate et directe des effets importants sur le niveau et la structure de l' industrie dans cette region; cela en termes absolus ainsi que par rapport aux tendances de l' economie provinciale. Cependant les effets a plus long terme du programme sont plus equivoques en ce qui concerne son efficacite comme catalyseur d' un developpement regional qui se perpetue et d' une amelioration du bien-etre economique de la region.