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What would you consider to constitute contributions to the social fabric of the Region?  Major donors to local charities, infrastructure, educational facilities and cultural amenities and events?  Check.  Pressing the provincial government to move forward with better rail links to Toronto?  Check.  Carrying the Region brand around the world?  Check.  Taking a principled stand against the development of autonomous weaponized robotics?  Check (Bravo, Clearpath!).  Serving as mentors to, and investors in, new startups?  Check.

So far, I would say they have established a pretty credible record.  I hope that it will be sustained with the newest generation, as they grow their businesses.  Everything that I have seen indicates that it is generally understood that building a strong community is part of the Region's continued success.

I was asking as a matter of interest with no idea of what the actual contribution of the current generation of entrepreneurs and business owners was.  Let's hope the drinking water supply holds up, whatever we're drinking in this area continues to make Waterloo Region a vibrant place.

It is unfashionable, these days, to put things in such terms, but one hopes that our entrepreneurial class has taken to heart the lesson of the Faithful Servant:

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.