(a) promoting the values of an enterprise culture and self-reliance throughout the province;
(b) promoting, especially, small and medium-sized enterprises including private businesses, co-operative societies, credit unions and community development corporations;
(c) reviewing and, where appropriate, initiating the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Employment and Unemployment;
(d) working with local development agencies to strengthen economic planning and in identifying employment and economic development opportunities;
(e) promoting and assisting in the integration of local economic development and the work of educational institutions;
(f) reviewing and making recommendations to the government respecting the activities of the government and agencies of the government that bear on economic development including education and training, resource management, income security, transportation, communications and labour relations;
(g) promoting a developmental and client-centred approach among the departments of the government and its agencies;
(h) fostering co-ordination and co-operation among community, provincial government and federal government economic development initiatives and programs throughout the province;
(i) preparing an inventory of all small and medium-sized commercial development opportunities in all regions of the province in the manufacturing, service, agricultural, forestry and fishing sectors of the province's economy;
(j) developing and implementing programs to provide parties in an area of the province having an interest in participating in the development of small and medium-sized enterprises with the means of assessing information as to the opportunities for that development together with information as to the advice and assistance, both financial and other, available to facilitate that development;
(k) making recommendations to the government as to the means of achieving decentralization of government services, activities, offices and agencies with a view to ensuring that the economic benefit derived from the operation of those government services, offices or agencies is, to the maximum extent reasonable, distributed in various regions of the province; and
(l) undertaking specific assignments relating to economic development or other economic matters that may be assigned to the commission by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.