A Halifax newspaper reports that Nova Scotian Charles Cirtwill will be heading up the Northern Policy Institute, a think-tank created by the Ontario government.
The Halifax Chronicle Herald said Cirtwill, who is the president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), a Halifax-based think-tank, will be based in Thunder Bay.
“I was offered a better job,” he said. “I’ve been here 12 years, and we’ve got a lot of work left to do here in Atlantic Canada, and I’m having a lot of fun doing it. But I was approached to take a job in Ontario to help a new think-tank get up and running, and so I’ve agreed to go off and give that a go.”
Ontario’s Liberal government announced the creation of the new institute last August.
Cirtwill reportedly will stay on the East Coast until fall, and possibly as late as January, to help AIMS transition to a new president.
Cirtwill, who has been president of AIMS since 2009, reportedly was approached by the Ontario government because of his work on rural community policy in Atlantic Canada.
He has family in the Thunder Bay area.
