ABSTRACT
Industrialized societies are currently undergoing a period of difficult restructuring, and Canada is no exception. The process of industrial change has been particularly painful for Ontario, Canada’s largest and most industrialized province, which since 1990 has experienced economic dislocation, instability and social hardship on a scale not witnessed since the Great Depression. With this kind of economic backdrop, it should come as no surprise that policy-makers in the province have become increasingly furtive in their pursuit of new approaches to industrial strategy.
