Return to note 26 For example, see the Equion Group, How to Pick a Labour Fund: A Guide for Ontario Residents, February, 1995

Return to note 27 This view was expressed strongly and repeatedly in CLMPC research interviews with Chairpersons of Boards of Directors and Presidents/Chief Executive Officers of leading labour-sponsored funds in 1994 and 1995

Return to note 28 For further elaboration, see: Fournier, Louis, Solidarité, inc: Un nouveau syndicalisme createur d'emplois, editions Québec/Amerique, 1991

Return to note 29 Baldwin, John, Strategies for Success: A Profile of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Canada, Statistics Canada, 1993

Return to note 30 Federal Business Development Bank, Economic Impact of Venture Capital Investments in Canada, prepared by Mary Macdonald and Associates, 1993

Return to note 31 Lamonde, Pierre, Yvon Martineau et Don Allen, Impact économique et fiscal des investissements du Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), 1984-1993, INRS, October, 1994

Return to note 32 Ibid, 1994

Return to note 33 Ibid, 1994

Return to note 34 Jackson, Ted and François Lamontagne, et al, CLMPC, 1995

Return to note 35 Suret, Jean-Marc, “Une évaluation des dépenses fiscales et subventions dans le domaine de la capitalisation des enterprises”, L'Actualité économique, Vol. 69, No. 2, June, 1993

Return to note 36 Working Opportunity Fund, Ltd., unpublished data, 1994

Return to note 37 Social Investment Organization, unpublished data, 1995

Return to note 38 Fonds de solidarité, et al, unpublished data, 1994

Return to note 39 De Sousa Shields, Marc, “Social values have an impact on the bottom line”, The Globe and Mail, April 21, 1994

Return to note 40 Jackson, Ted and François Lamontagne, et al, 1995

Return to note 41 Economic Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, Equity Capital and Economic Development in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1989

Return to note 42 Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, Equity Capital Investment: A Key to Entrepreneurial Expansion in Atlantic Canada, 1994

Return to note 43 ACVCC, Venture Capital in Canada: A Guide and Sources, 1992, page 12

Return to note 44 ACVCC, Venture Capital in Canada: Annual Statistical Review and Directory, et al, 1994

Return to note 45 This approach is explained fully by Venture Economics Canada, Ltd., in Working Ventures: A National Venture Capital Fund for Canadian Workers, 1987

Return to note 46 Details of this objective are found in the presentation of Denis Dionne, premier vice-président, (placements et investissements), Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), inc., to the Standing Committee on Industry, House of Commons, May 10, 1994

Return to note 47 Macdonald and Associates, unpublished data, 1994

Return to note 48 See ACVCC, Venture Capital in Canada: Annual Statistical Review and Directory, June, 1995

Return to note 49 Data from the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Investment Funds Institute of Canada is surveyed in Shareowners Study, 1993

Return to note 50 Fonds de solidarité, et al, Rapport annuel 1994, 1995

Return to note 51 Ibid, unpublished data, 1995

Return to note 52 Op. Cit., 1995

Return to note 53 Op. Cit., 1992 and 1994

Return to note 54 Ibid, 1992 and 1994

Return to note 55 The Equion Group, How to Pick a Labour Fund: A Guide for Ontario Residents, February, 1995

Return to note 56 Lamonde, Pierre, et al, INRS, 1994

Return to note 57 For example, Working Opportunity Fund, Ltd., unpublished data, 1992-93

Return to note 58 Op. Cit., 1995

Return to note 59 See Leckie, Norm and Gordon Betcherman, “The impacts of HRM practices on establishment performance”, Canadian Business Economics, Summer, 1994

Return to note 60 Conte, Michael, Overview of Major Research Results Concerning Corporate Performance Effects of Employee Ownership, University of Baltimore, 1993