PODCAST: CLAC's New Apprenticeship Program

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...

Paul de JongBackground 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...

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...

In his book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford, a philosopher turned motorcycle mechanic, argued that that our society’s focus on “knowledge work” has degraded the manual trades. ...