PODCAST: 2025 Ontario Provincial Election Results with Sam Duncan

Recap from Part 1:In my first post, I took a run at one of the most common sleights-of-hand in construction politics: big headline workforce numbers that get repeated as if they’re counts of active, o...

Ontario’s 2026 Budget maintains a large infrastructure spend, while delaying the plans to get back in the black.  Featuring PCA’s Stephen Hamilton and Sam Duncan, Vice President at Wellington Adv...

Background:   In June of 2025, the Building Canada Act C-5 received Royal Assent. The Act enables the government to streamline federal approval processes to get major projects built fas...

PCA President & CEO, Paul de Jong, speaks with Hugh Secord, Chief Strategist with Oakbridges Labour Relations Strategies. Their discussion includes the issues of labour supply in Canada, the ...

If you follow construction politics in Canada, you’ve heard it: the Canadian Building Trades Unions (CBTU) say they represent 600,000 workers.And it’s not just “someone said it somewhere.” CBTU leader...

Paul de Jong, President & CEO at PCA, chats with Wayne Prins, Executive Director of the CLAC union. The discussion covers the history of the union, policy priorities, workforce development innovat...