5/23/2023 0 Comments The day before yesterday i was 21That is a jobs recovery of 126 per cent-compared to just 112 per cent in the United States.Īnd one of the drivers of that remarkable economic recovery has been child care. There are 800,000 more Canadians working today than before COVID first hit. Our economy is facing global headwinds from a position of fundamental strength.Ĭanada had the strongest economic growth in the G7 in 2022.Īt just five per cent, our unemployment rate is near its record low. It represents a generational opportunity for Canada and for Canadian workers, and our government believes that union workers will be the driving force that will build Canada's 21st century economy. And I want you to know we believe in what you’re doing and we are going to continue supporting your work for many years to come. I’m also really glad that our government has been able to support your work with our Labour Mobility Tax Deduction and the Union Training and Innovation Program. It’s important and I admire and respect you for doing that work. So I want to say: thank you very much! Thank you for the work you do. And our economy really depends on the training that they get here and at training facilities like this across the country. Our economy depends on the people who I met here today and on people like them across the country. It requires everything from understanding Ohm’s law to being able to strip those wires.Īnd it is really important work. This is hard work that you do, this is really skilled challenging work that you do. I really want to thank the women who I had the chance to speak to and do some wiring with today for the work you’re doing and for the really important example that you are setting for women and girls across Ontario and across Canada.Īs I toured this great training centre and spoke with the members here, I was really struck by the pride that you so rightly take in your work. ![]() We absolutely need more women leaders in the trades- more women doing the very highly-skilled, fulfilling, important, and well-paid jobs that people are trained here to do. ![]() Today is International Women’s Day so I want to give a special shout-out to the sisterhood I have spent some time with here today: Susan Boorman, Karen Pullen, Julie D’altroy, and all of the amazing women that I’ve met here.Ĭanada’s 21st century economy is being built and will continue to be built by skilled workers. ![]() I am so glad to be here with my friends, the great Mississauga MP’s, Peter Fonseca and Rechie Valdez.Īnd I’m really glad to have spent some time today with members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. First, I want to acknowledge that we’re gathered on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat and the Wyandot Nations.
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