The Ontario Economy Ontario is Canada's business and financial centre. It is the leader in long term industrial activity and job creation.
Private investment tends to be several times the Canadian average.
For example, business investments in Ontario increased 70 per cent between 1983 and 1991. During the eighties and into the nineties, Ontario consumers bought houses, cars, and durable goods. Their confidence came, in part, from the creation of 882,000 new jobs between 1983 and 1994. Scientific farming begins Other players in Ontario's economy Manufacturing Ontario is Canada's leading manufacturing province. It produces 52 per cent of Canada's manufactured goods and 80 per cent of its manufactured exports.