OSME - Partnerships

The Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME) – Ontario Region participates in various SME outreach events throughout Ontario. These include trade shows, conferences, workshops and panels. OSME also works directly with industry, cultural and other stakeholder organizations to provide seminars and briefings to their members.

Here are some stakeholder organizations OSME has worked with, organized by stakeholder categories:

• Business Organizations
• Community Organizations
• Cultural Business and Trade Organizations
• Government of Canada
• Other levels of government
• Non-governmental Organization

Please note the following links will take you away from the OSME Web site. Be advised that the legislation and policy governing Government of Canada Web sites, including official language requirements, may not apply beyond this point.

Business Organizations

• Information Technology Association of Canada (Ontario chapter)
• Human Resource Professional Association Ontario
• Canadian Franchise Association
• Small Office Home Office (SOHO)
• Ontario General Contractor Association (OGCA)
• Canadian Association of Management Consultants
• Women Who Excel
• Toronto the Business Exchange
• National Event Management (NEM)
• Small Biz Home Biz United

Community Organizations

• Pembroke Chamber of Commerce
• The Canadian Chamber of Commerce
• Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
• Greater Dufferin Chamber of Commerce
• Belleville Chamber of Commerce
• Aurora Chamber of Commerce
• Richmond Hill Chamber of Commerce
• Oshawa Chamber of Commerce
• Canadian Lakehead Exhibition
• Oakville Chamber of Commerce
• Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO)
• Community Futures Development Center – Venture/Enterprise Niagara
• Centennial College, Centre of Entrepreneurship
• Rotary Club of North York
• YMCA - Toronto

Cultural Business and Trade Organizations

• Black Business and Professional Association
• Chinese Business Chamber of Commerce
• Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs
• Canada Sri-Lanka Business Council
• Mississauga Board of Chinese Professionals Businesses
• African Canadian Social Development Council
• Canadian-Chinese Computer Association
• The Hong Kong – Canada Business Association
• Chinese Importer & Exporter Club of Canada
• Richmond Hill - Markham Chinese Business Association
• Quality of Life - Omnimedia

Government of Canada

• Canada Revenue Agency
• Canada Business
• Service Canada

Other levels of government

Provincial Government

• Small Business Enterprise Centres
• Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Municipal Government

• Enterprise Toronto
• The City of Toronto - Economic Development Office
• City of Quinte West - Economic Development Commission,
• Whitby Economic Development Division
• Vaughan Business Enterprise Centre
• City of Kawartha Lakes

Non-governmental Organizations

• Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC)
• The Learning Enrichment Foundation
• Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement
• The National Francophone Economic Development Network Ontario (RDÉE-Ontario)