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Mike Moffatt | Why Southwestern Ontario's manufacturing rebound is missing in action

Feb 16, 2015

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Once the industrial heartland of the country, southwestern Ontario has struggled over the years to keep up with the changing times.

Ivey Professor Mike Moffatt comments on how it's unrealistic to think the future lies in the kind of large-scale manufacturing it's known in the past. He points to the current plummeting prices of oil and the decreasing value of the loonie as contributing factors.