Research Report | October 2023 A Superior Place to Invest: An By: William Dunstan

By merging the centre of Canada, on the Great Lakes, and close to Northern Policy Institute and member organizations’ the United States, Thunder Bay is ideally placed to move collective resources, the agreement ensures that the people and goods across North America. [...] Accordingly, the ages 15 to 64 who are active in the labour force, and the employment rate is the share of people ages 15 rates of labour force participation, employment, and to 64 who are employed. [...] Figure 11 shows the number of businesses in Thunder Bay from 2018 to 2021 and the locations2 recorded in the Canadian Business Counts3 number of people they employed. [...] Water travel The Port of Thunder Bay is the Western Canada terminus of the St. [...] The system is the largest inland waterway in the world and provides a marine highway between the Atlantic Ocean and the centre of North America.