Jul 5, 2021 The Welch LLP Ottawa Business Growth Survey is a comprehensive annual research project that explores what’s ahead for the city’s economy based on surveys with hundreds of business leaders. Read their insights and understand the factors shaping business confidence in Ottawa, in this exclusive report. After collectively taking a financial hit during the pandemic, confidence among Ottawa’s business leaders is on the rebound amid growing optimism that market conditions will improve over the next year. Ottawa’s business confidence index – a composite calculation based on insights from business leaders collected as part of the Welch LLP Ottawa Business Growth Survey – crept back into positive territory during the first half of 2021 in a partial recovery from the shock that the COVID-19 pandemic initially sent through the economy roughly a year earlier.