Economy

Is the city's current approach to encouraging economic diversification heading in the right direction?

Context:

The city currently spends more to support local businesses than to attract businesses from elsewhere. The city spends about $30 million per year to support small businesses, Business Improvement Areas, Explore Edmonton, and Innovate Edmonton. It spends about $3.1 million per year to support industrial businesses and investors, half of which is allocated to Edmonton Global, the region's economic development agency.

Candidate responses Voter responses

Candidate responses

A total of 67 candidates have responded to the survey. Here's how they answered this question:

a) Yes, we have effective initiatives in place

Candidates that selected this response:

b) No, the city should put more resources behind nurturing homegrown businesses

Candidates that selected this response:

c) No, the city should put more resources behind attracting global businesses

Candidates that selected this response:

d) I don't have a position on this issue

No candidates selected this response

Candidates that skipped this question:

Voter responses

Based on more than 16,000 responses received as of Oct. 14, here's how voters answered this question:

Overall

By ward

Note: Taproot excluded surveys with fewer than two answers from these results. It was possible for voters to fill out the survey multiple times, but unlikely at a large scale given the structure of the survey. Voters were not able to select "I don't have a position on this issue".

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