From establishing a one - stop shop for
economic development in Erie County, to opening up for
development the old Bethlehem Steel site, to creating a new task force to find ways to adequately
fund Visit Buffalo Niagara, to building upon our successes of attracting Canadian businesses to this side of the Niagara River, each Initiative represents just one piece of a puzzle, or a gear in the
overall machine that is our economy.
During the campaign for the general election this past June, the ruling Conservative party pledged that
overall R&D
funding would reach 2.4 % of gross domestic product (GDP), the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and
Development average, by 2027 and eventually rise to 3 %.