The impetus for a Task Force grew out of a concern by many Campbell River business leaders that the COVID-19 pandemic could add significant challenges to businesses and industries, resulting in serious econominc downturn.
It was determined that the following actions were appropriate in order to develop a chohesive and organized approach to successfully identify and confront unfavourable conditions facing the business community:
When this project began, we drafted a TERMS of REFERENCE with a belief that business recovery from COVID-19 would be the centepiece issue. However, it soon became apparent that this assumption did not equally apply to the major sectors of our economy.
NOTE: Since the publishing of the CR Business Recovery Task Force Report in August 2020, the BC Council of Forest Industries (COFI) published its own report in October 2020 entitled 2019 Regional Supply Chain Study. The report was prepared by iTotem Industries Ltd., an Indigenous affiliated business based in Vancouver. The COFI Report concluded that supply chain purchases by the forest industry from Campbell River suppliers amounted to $253 Million in 2019.
Campbell River & District Chamber of Commerce
Enterprise Centre
900 Alder Street
Campbell River, BC, V9W 2P6
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Mary Ruth Snyder
Executive Director
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