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Startups and small businesses platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.

PC
  • Create an investment tax credit for companies developing technologies that support national defence

    "Creating a new Defence Security Investment Tax Credit to attract greater investment and job creation in the province and help meet our two per cent of GDP NATO commitment, including by supporting investments in innovative critical technologies such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to support the future of defence technologies." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Provide $3B in payroll tax and premium relief for small businesses
  • Provide $50M more to Venture Ontario

    "Providing $50 million more to Venture Ontario, the province’s venture capital agency, to make dedicated capital fund investments to support domestic start-ups in strategic technology areas that support our national defence." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

We don't have any ONDP policies on Startups and small businesses.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Startups and small businesses.
We don't have any Green policies on Startups and small businesses.

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