00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.818634 CaOODSP 20221107142750 cr ||||||||||| 160928s2016 oncbd #ob f000 0 eng d 978-0-660-05563-3 CaOODSP eng n-cn--- Iu4-205/2016E-PDF Northern Ontario Development Program [electronic resource] : final evaluation report. Final evaluation of the Northern Ontario Development Program Ottawa : Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Audit and Evaluation Branch, 2016. ii, 34 p. : maps, graphs "May 2016." Title from cover. Issued also in HTML format. "Presented to the Departmental Evaluation Committee on May 10, 2016"--Cover. "Approved by the Deputy Minister on May 27, 2016"--Cover. Issued also in French under title: Programme de développement du Nord de l'Ontario : rapport d’évaluation final. Includes bibliographical references. "Economic growth in Northern Ontario is slow relative to the rest of Ontario and Canada as a whole. The region’s economy has historically been concentrated in natural resource sectors, driving a need for economic diversification and the transition to a knowledge economy. However, challenges include stagnating population growth, lower levels of education, as well as limited municipal resources available to invest in economic growth. Furthermore, while Northern Ontario encompasses 90% of Ontario’s land mass, it represents only 6.5% of the province’s population, which creates difficulties for both economic growth and program delivery"--Executive summary, p. i. gccst Economic development gccst Rural development gccst Assessment Canada. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Audit and Evaluation Branch. Programme de développement du nord de l'Ontario (CaOODSP)9.818637 PDF 604 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/isde-ised/Iu4-205-2016-eng.pdf HTML N/A https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ae-ve.nsf/eng/h_03832.html