Our recommendations

Managing the Provincial Growth Fund.

We recommend that:

  1. the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment further strengthen transparency about the operation of all parts of the Provincial Growth Fund's application, assessment, and decision-making processes;
  2. the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Ministry for Primary Industries, and the Ministry of Transport work together to continue to enhance consolidated reporting and more meaningfully report to Parliament and the public on the Provincial Growth Fund as a whole; and
  3. the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment complete and publish, as quickly as possible, a plan for evaluating the overall effectiveness of the Provincial Growth Fund to ensure transparency of how officials plan to give assurance to Parliament and the public about what it is achieving, both regionally and nationally.