Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Nova Scotia. Program Development Agency
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Description area
Dates of existence
1968-
History
The Program Development Agency was established by Order in Council on 22 January 1968. The agency's primary role was to implement planned economic programs for Nova Scotia. It was responsible to a cabinet committee composed of the ministers of finance and economics, trade and industry, fisheries, and agriculture and marketing, as well as other ministers named by the president of the Executive Council. The agency undertook, appraised, and evaluated studies, reports, and plans relating to economic development; advised the cabinet committee on development strategies; prepared, organized, and implemented programs of economic development; and coordinated economic policy and development activities of the provincial government.