The Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce is focusing on two things this coming year: An automotive strategy and growing its small business community.
President and CEO Matt Marchand says, "We've set up our first ever small business committee. They're meeting right now, and will have a policy paper out sometime in the spring. We've got some ideas how to grow that business." He explains, "We've got a two-fold strategy, if you will. We've got the larger end, which is the auto side -- keeping and maintaining what we have -- and at the same time, be in position to grow our small business." Marchand believes our region should be attracting more auto investment than it currently is.
The chamber also thinks Windsor-Essex can become the small-medium enterprise capital of Canada through it's newly developed small business committee.