I pick Woodstock, but CFIB would disagree
By
Mark Schadenberg
The
top three (in order) are Calgary, Saskatoon and the GTA.
What
is the next question? Top three in which Canadian category?
The
Canadian Federation of Independent Business (www.cfib.ca)
ranks Canada’s cities for entrepreneurial spirit, attracting new business,
maintaining or retaining current companies, and an area's overall business atmosphere.
I
would like to know how, with all the new corporations arriving here in Woodstock –
especially since 2005 – the CFIB places our community at 102 out of 107 on the poll?
Woodstock is a former Communities In Bloom champion
The
list is released in the online story entitled Communities In Boom (Nice play on
words) to assist in publicizing what is known as Canada’s Small Business Week.
The
CFIB is Canada’s largest association
of small and medium-sized businesses with 109,000 members across every sector
and region. (Those are their words, by the way, from the press release.)
A chart or list of scores is tabulated from 14
different criteria as defined by the CFIB.
The top two is unchanged from the 2012 number
crunching, while the Toronto area leaps from No 5, and Edmonton falls to No. 4
from 3. The entire chart is posted in the pdf link below.
The full list includes 107 centres.
Others On List
Where do southern Ontario places sit? 46 Brantford,
53 K-W & Cambridge, 62 Chatham-Kent, 72 Hamilton, 73 Windsor, 82 London, 91
Norfolk (Simcoe area), 93 Stratford, 102 Woodstock, and 103 Sarnia.
Scores are tabulated through three main categories:
presence (score 0 to 25) perspective (up to 35) and policy (up to 40). The top score
of 67.6 is in Calgary’s favour, whereas Woodstock’s total is just 45.5.
Permits To Build
The overall barometer considers many areas of good,
bad or indifferent economic concerns for employment or companies overall
satisfaction. The list includes: company retention, new start-ups, building
permits, cost of local government, property tax rates, the large catch-all term of life satisfaction for residents, and
certainly also self employment statistics.
By quickly glancing over the charts, I would say
Woodstock’s poor showing in ‘cost of local government’ is the main reason our
city was so low on the list. However, since our community carries such a low
overall debt (We pay for our infrastructure and operating budgets, and not put
it on credit), I would say Woodstock is a strong community.
The CFIB, however, doesn’t agree.
I would pick Woodstock to reside in. It is my hometown. If you want to hear 102 reasons to live in Woodstock, contact me.
THE LINK:
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas
St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519) 537-1553,
cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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