Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid: Economy

Premier Dalton McGuinty Dept: The council is tasked with finding $250 million in savings on business and skills training programs and devising ways to boost Ontario s economy with unemployment stubbornly stuck above 7 per cent, according to The Star. Our jobless rate has now been ahead of the national average for 64 straight months, said Progressive Conservative MPP Monte McNaughton, his party s economic development critic and a multi-millionaire banker, RBC chief executive Gord Nixon, will head Premier Dalton McGuinty s new jobs and prosperity council, Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid said Friday. Duguid s announcement came on a day opposition parties were highly critical of his government s handling of the economy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.