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Bob Chiarelli served as Ottawa Mayor from 2000-2006. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on March 4, 2010 in a by-election in the riding of Ottawa West-Nepean. Bob was previously MPP for the riding of Ottawa West from 1987 to 1997, and he served as the parliamentary assistant to the Chair of the Management Board in 1987-88. Bob was appointed Minister of Transportation in October 2011, in addition to the role of Minister of Infrastructure which he held since August 2010. He served as MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean until 2018. Bob Chiarelli is currently retired after running for Mayor again in the 2022 Ottawa municipal election, where he finished 3rd behind Katherine McKenny and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe.

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Ontario Partners With Cisco Canada to Help Create Up to 1,700 New Jobs

December 13, 2013

Dear Ontarians,

Ontario has announced a major new partnership with Cisco Canada that will help the company create up to 1,700 jobs in Ottawa and Toronto over the next six years. Cisco’s Ottawa Development Centre will be front-and-centre as a result of the agreement, which is the largest job-creating investment ever in the history of the province’s tech sector.

Cisco is investing up to $4 billion in Ontario over the next decade, including up to $2.2 billion in salaries alone. The Ontario government is providing a total grant of up to $220 million to support Cisco’s investment and help the company grow to 5,000 jobs in the next 10 years. As a result, Ontario will become one of the network equipment maker’s global R&D hubs for its next generation technologies.

The Ottawa region’s concentration of technology talent was a major attraction for Cisco, combined with Ontario’s research infrastructure and competitive business climate.

Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the investment from Cisco’s Canadian headquarters in Toronto today with me, Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli, videoconferencing in from Cisco’s Ottawa Development Centre in Kanata.

Partnering with business to create jobs is part of the government’s economic plan to invest in people, build modern infrastructure and support a dynamic and innovative business climate across Ontario.

QUICK FACTS

  • The majority of Cisco’s new hires will be in research and development, with a focus on recent graduates and mentoring the next generation of talent in Ontario.
  • In 2011, Ontario announced $25 million in support of a technology innovation project with Cisco valued at $455 million. The investment resulted in 300 new R&D positions in Ottawa and Toronto, and the project’s success laid the groundwork for the much larger investment announced today.
  • Ontario has been consistently proactive in attracting technology investment to the Ottawa region with recent projects including Group IV Semiconductor, SiGe Semiconductor, Huawei, Avaya, Ciena and Ericsson.
  • Ontario’s Information and Communications Technology industry directly employs about 250,000 people, representing almost half of the sector employment in Canada.
  • Ontario ranks third in North America after California and Texas for the number of Information Communications and Technology companies.

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