CCA, MHCA to discuss core infrastructure priorities
October 23rd meeting also to focus on CCA efforts in federal election campaign
Mary Van Buren, president of the Canadian Construction Association, will join CCA Board Chair John Bockstael and association vice-president Rodrigue Gilbert in a meeting with MHCA next month to hear the issues and files of concern to Manitoba’s heavy construction industry.
“We think the CCA, as the national voice for construction, is an important partner and advocate for pressing strategic, sustained investment in core infrastructure so we are really happy to see its leadership visit Winnipeg to meet with our industry,” MHCA Chris Lorenc said. “We are intent on putting core infrastructure – given its verified value to the economy – at the centre of national investment programs.”
MHCA members will be invited to the October 23rd breakfast meeting. Following that session, the leadership of both associations will meet to delve into further detail on important items.
One of those items is the reframed governance of the CCA itself, which seeks to be more inclusive of perspectives from local construction associations.
Henry Borger, an MHCA Past Chair and a member of its Executive Committee, chairs the CCA’s Civil Infrastructure Council and sits on its Executive Committee.
A formal notice will be posted by the MHCA of the meeting time and place. Please check your Heavy News next week for details.
In other matters, the CCA has launched its federal election campaign strategy, seeking the support of all local association members to push candidates to focus on critical infrastructure investment. The federal election takes place October 21.
The CCA is urging members to write their local federal candidates to get them to commit to four policy and program priorities
- remove any further federal regulatory delays to the Trans Mountain expansion project
- commit to a 25-year plan for infrastructure spending in Canada
- partner with the construction industry to support innovation
- increase funding for career and technical training programs
Read more on the CCA advocacy for the federal election here .
