Human Resources committee  It's an excellent question. Another good example is hygiene. For a long time, if anybody was on a construction site or worked on construction sites up until the pandemic, hygiene lagged drastically behind. If an office worker or an engineer was working on site, they would use t

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. The Canadian Building Trades Unions, even at the local level, is one of the largest private trainers. I think the only one larger than us is the Canadian military. When we take a look at the local level, that influx of grants and tax monies that come in from the gov

Human Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you, Chad. A good example is to expand the questions on the labour market impact assessment form. As Sean said, the 2015 version had questions particular to unions. In the 2021 version, the questions were changed and some were removed. Our recommendation w

Human Resources committee  Yes, I do. I appreciate it. A good example is this summer. A contractor had to bring in 10 workers from Portugal to do a project. Unfortunately, the project was delayed and local skilled trades were given layoffs, because there were penalties for the contractor regarding the tem

Human Resources committee  Yes. Thank you. There are examples I can give you. When you have longer-term projects, you can plan on availability, but when we take a look at some of our owner-clients such as the Dofascos and the Stelcos, they sometimes have steel mill shutdowns that are basically only two or

Human Resources committee  Good morning, Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Mark Ellerker. I'm the business manager of the Hamilton-Brantford Building Trades Council representing 16 unions and over 10,000 skilled trade workers. As Sean mentioned, the unique, cy