Provincial Throne Speech

Premier Dalton McGuinty plans to kick start the province's ailing economy by exploiting untapped mining potential in Northern Ontario and developing a highly-skilled work force, all while dealing with deficits for years to come.


Mr. McGuinty unveiled his blueprint for returning Canada's one-time economic engine to prosperity in the Speech from the Throne on Monday. The speech sets out to burnish Mr. McGuinty's credentials as the Education Premier by making post-secondary education part and parcel of his five-year economic recovery plan known as Open Ontario.


The government is reaching out to more post-secondary students at home and abroad with plans to add 20,000 new spaces in the province's colleges and universities this year, creating an online institute and boosting foreign enrolment by 50 per cent.



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