TORONTO - To revive Ontario's battered manufacturing sector, policymakers could learn a lesson from Michigan where manufacturing employment and output have rebounded strongly following the recession eight years ago, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
"Michigan and Ontario have a lot in common, but while Michigan has revived its manufacturing sector since the recession, Ontario's manufacturing sector has struggled." said Ben Eisen, the Fraser Institute's director of provincial prosperity studies and co-author of Ontario vs. Michigan: Policy Lessons from the Wolverine State.