Ontario in the creative age : Ontario à l'ère de la créativité

In the 2008 Ontario Budget, Premier McGuinty asked us to “undertake a study of the changing composition of Ontario’s economy and workforce” and to “examine historical changes and projected future trends affecting Ontario.” Our task was to “provide recommendations to the Province on how to ensure Ontario’s economy and people remain globally competitive and prosperous.” To do so, we launched a major [...] We can build a shared prosperity for Ontarians by drawing more broadly on the creative skills of our people and workforce, developing stronger clustered industries, and harnessing the creative potential of current and future generations to become a model for generating prosperity in the creative age. [...] We need to link our older, industrial communities and the areas located far from the mega-region to this core so we can move goods, people, and ideas across and through our province and beyond with the speed and velocity required to compete globally. [...] Workers in turn fail to develop their creative The rise of the creative age is a double-edged capabilities to the highest level through advanced education and sword. [...] The transformation involves moving from Arguably, only after the Second World War did the advanced routine-oriented jobs to creativity-oriented jobs economies establish a broader industrial society able to support – the two foundational types of occupations in and harness the tremendous productive capacity of the great our economy.