A report by a committee representing 15 counties in southwestern Ontario looks at re-defining economic development.
Huron County's past warden, Jim Ginn, says the interim report was released by the Western Warden's Economic Development Committee.
“Economic development is no longer strictly business attraction, where you bring in a factory with forty workers. That's not what we need now, we need workers, so we need places for new workers to live, we probably need to get a larger share of immigrants to come to Huron County.”
Ginn says one of the possibilities raised in the report is hiring migrant workers to work in other industries besides agriculture.
“It's really a broad overview of what's in our strategic direction, including the possibility of temporary foreign workers for industries other than agriculture. It's been successful in agriculture and that's a possibility.”