Productivity, Competitiveness and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Mandate.

This diagram is a horizontal flow chart that depicts a step-by-step process, flowing from left to right, illustrating how the activities of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and other federal and provincial departments ultimately lead to economic prosperity.

The diagram consists of six boxes. The first set of two boxes, linked by an arrow, starts at the top left hand part of the page. The second set of two boxes, also linked by an arrow, starts at the bottom left hand part of the page. Both these sets of boxes are linked by an arrow to the last two boxes, which are linked by an arrow as well. In this last set of two boxes, the first box states “competitiveness”, and the second box states “prosperity”.

On the left side of the page, the two top boxes depict how the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s activities lead to prosperity, while the two bottom boxes show how other federal and provincial departmental activities lead to prosperity.

The first of the top left boxes of the diagram shows three of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s program activities. These are 1. Enterprise Development; 2. Community Development; and 3. Policy, Advocacy and Coordination. This box feeds into the second upper box, which identifies three key areas:
1. Productivity (which includes innovation, acquisition of technology and equipment, business skills development, and access to capital for firms and communities);
2. Infrastructure support; and
3. Access to international trade.
These three key areas then flow into the box named competitiveness, which flows into the box named prosperity.

The first of the bottom left boxes of the diagram represents the activities of other federal and provincial government departments. This box flows into the second bottom box, which represents the factors of business climate, regulatory environment, exchange rates and fiscal policy. These then flow into the competitiveness box, which flows into the prosperity box.

In the final box, titled prosperity, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency achieves its mandate of increased earned incomes and employment opportunities.