Northwestern Ontario communities need to rethink the way they carry out economic development.
Brock Dickinson, an economic development consultant, spoke at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association Conference in Thunder Bay.
Dickinson says northern communities need to revamp their economic development skills.
"The tools, the offices and the systems that we put in place were put in place thirty or forty years ago," says Dickinson, "and focused on things that are not on the leading edge of the new economy. Step one is to rethink what we're doing and why we're doing it."
Dickinson says the North can also thrive on entrepreneurs that do business world wide using technology such as green energy.
