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The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund is a Crown corporation and development agency of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines in the Canadian province of Ontario, whose purpose is to provide funding and program support to foster economic development in the economically disadvantaged Northern Ontario region.〔"North to get economic help". ''Toronto Star'', November 4, 1987.〕 The NOHF concentrates on six key funding programs: job creation, technology research and development, infrastructure and community development, youth entrepreneurship, youth internship and cooperative education, and generation and conservation of renewable energy. ==History== First announced in the David Peterson government's 1987 throne speech,〔 the fund's creation was included in the 1988 provincial budget,〔"Northern aid fund to get $360 million over next 12 years". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 21, 1988.〕 and the enabling legislation was given royal assent on June 7, 1988.〔"Legislation". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 7, 1988.〕 At the time, it was set up as a short-term program which was slated to conclude in 1999;〔"Secret memo depicts a desperate North". ''Toronto Star'', April 18, 1990.〕 it has since seen periodic funding expansions and term extensions, and continues to run today, although as of 2015 the fund has still not been officially converted into a permanent program.〔"Candidates say Heritage Fund should be permanent". ''Thunder Bay's Source'', September 9, 2011.〕 The organization's first board, consisting of 19 representatives from various cities and towns across the region, was named in July 1988.〔"Panel named to supervise northern fund". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 9, 1988.〕 One of the fund's first large-scale investments was a $7.6 million contribution to the creation and construction of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.〔"Underground observatory hinges on federal funds". ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 5, 1989.〕 In its earliest years, the fund received some criticism focusing on allegations that it was too often used as an emergency bailout fund for failing natural resource companies rather than as a mechanism to actively encourage economic development or diversification, and that it lacked sufficient controls to prevent it from becoming misused as a vote-buying slush fund.〔"Spend the money: - The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. has not lived up to its goals". ''Sudbury Star'', June 24, 2002.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northern Ontario Heritage Fund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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