Working with the government to modernize Canada's immigration system, including support for the entry of more skilled trades workers, updates to the Temporary Foreign Workers program, and ensuring skills matching is well funded.
Working with the government to modernize Canada's immigration system, including support for the entry of more skilled trades workers, updates to the Temporary Foreign Workers program, and ensuring skills matching is well funded. Stable and long-term infrastructure funding that supports housing, trade, and economic growth. Government collaboration with industry to promote careers in construction to address Canada's critical labour shortage.
Government collaboration with industry to promote careers in construction to address Canada's critical labour shortage. Stable and long-term infrastructure funding that supports housing, trade, and economic growth. Working with the government to modernize Canada's immigration system, including support for the entry of more skilled trades workers, updates to the Temporary Foreign Workers program, and ensuring skills matching is well funded.
Stable and long-term infrastructure funding that supports housing, trade, and economic growth. Government collaboration with industry to promote careers in construction to address Canada's critical labour shortage. Working with the government to modernize Canada's immigration system, including support for the entry of more skilled trades workers, updates to the Temporary Foreign Workers program, and ensuring skills matching is well funded.
MODERNIZE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: The federal governments procurement strategy is outdated, leaving little room for creative solutions and fair risk sharing. Contactors shouldering the majority of project risk is becoming an untenable model for many smaller companies who already navigate a long list of red tape and challenges. The reluctance to bid on federal projects because of this heightened risk is becoming a real issue and is impacting progress on public projects. With productivity issues on the rise, now is the time to modernize procurement practices. Innovative procurement and delivery methods can improve productivity, enable cost savings, and shorten the timeline for construction projects. To build the infrastructure needed across the country, federal procurement strategies need to adapt to account for long-term value and sustainability, promote the use of alternative delivery models, and support shared risk. BUILD THE WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE: The federal government has an ambitious growth plan – one that includes repairing, maintaining and retrofitting aging infrastructure while also building for future climate resilience. Construction now employs more people than ever before, yet our industry will need to fill hundreds of thousands of jobs in the next decade brought on by shifting demographics and a spate of retirements. The situation is even more acute as the construction sector is already dealing with decades of chronic challenges in recruiting qualified workers. Our industry is struggling to fill indispensable jobs nationwide that are essential to build the infrastructure needed to support Canadas future growth. To achieve Canadas infrastructure goals, the construction industry requires an equal partner in government to grow the labour force. INCREASE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT: CCA has been working to help shape a long-term plan for sustainable infrastructure investment. We need to move from quick fixes to a strategy that focuses on long-term solutions. More consultation and early engagement need to happen. The funds must be predictable, flow quickly, and be aligned with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous needs. Setting national goals around building sustainability into our infrastructure and promoting investments in trade-enabling infrastructure are just two of the significant opportunities for Canada. An investment in infrastructure is an investment in Canadas growth economy and the health, safety and well-being of Canadians.
Poursuivre la mise à jour afin de moderniser et d'actualiser les modèles d'appel d'offres et de passation de marchés du gouvernement du Canada. Travailler en partenariat avec le gouvernement afin de remédier à la pénurie de main-d'oeuvre, notamment en modernisant le système d'immigration du Canada et accélérant la reconnaissance des formations et des qualifications des travailleurs. Investir et renforcer l'infrastructure commerciale en soutenant le Plan d'infrastructure commerciale du Canada (PICC). Reconnaître le rôle essentiel des infrastructures favorisant le logement afin de remédier à la pénurie de logements dans le pays et allouer les fonds nécessaires à leur développement.
Educating elected officials on the impact of the construction sector and its economic output in Canada. Discussing the state of the construction sector workforce, Canada's infrastructure deficit, procurement processes at the Federal level, and the current construction supply chain.