Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Budget
• Climate
• Constitutional Issues
• Consumer Issues
• Defence
• Economic Development
• Education
• Elections
• Employment and Training
• Energy
• Environment
• Government Procurement
• Health
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Internal Trade
• International Trade
• Labour
• Mining
• Pensions
• Regional Development
• Taxation and Finance
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• Advocating for increased funding to the apprenticeship incentive grant, the completion grant and the continuation of the UTIP funding.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• CAMUS agreement with the United States and Mexico, and the impact it could have on manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, labour mobility, climate change, energy and labour standards.
• Continuation of seperate employment insurance account - Employment Insurance Act Our specific interest is as follows - Funds collected from employment insurance contributions do not flow into the consolidated revenue fund of the Government of Canada to be used for deficit repayment or other ad hoc spending
• EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT working with Employment Services and Skills Development on insurable hours, benefit delivery and the qualification requirements for employment insurance.
• Federal Budget - with respect to infrastructure funding and tax incentives for skilled labour

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation

• IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE PROTECTION ACT Particularily the Temporary Foreign Worker process and the relevant regulations Class determinants for immigration purpses "Family, Economic ...and working to ensure a policy favourable to construction exists

Policies or Program

• Advocating for a pilot program aimed at testing the feasibility / applicability of labour mobility between areas of higher unemployment and labour shortages. This pilot program would grant favoured tax status to pilot participants travelling to obtain full time employment in a trade deemed to be experiencing labour shortages.
• Apprenticeship & Training Employment and Skills Development and the Red Seal Secretariat to continue to promote and use the Red Seal Program.
• Conversations around government supports for workers and the members we represent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Foreign Worker Program, Language requirements for Temporary Foreign Worker program applicants. Also working with departments on innapropriate uses of Temporary foreign workers ...and working to ensure these workers are paid the same as Candian workers (wages, benefits )
• Pipeline projects - discussing the benefits to the economy and employment of these type of projects in Canada
• The impact on employment opportunities for skilled trades workers in Canada and the effect on training opportunities in primary and emerging industries.
• To oppose any potential tax measures to be enacted by the Federal Government on Union members or pensioners who receive a private supplemental health and dental plan which is paid for by an employer , collective bargaining agreement or pension plan.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
• Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)
• Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB)
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA)
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
• Canadian Coast Guard (CCG)
• Canadian Energy Regulator (CER)
• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
• Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
• Competition Tribunal (CT)
• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
• Defence Construction Canada (DCC)
• Elections Canada
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Justice Canada (JC)
• National Capital Commission (NCC)
• National Defence (DND)
• National Research Council (NRC)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)
• Office of the Procurement Ombudsman (OPO)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Public Service Labour Relations Board (PSLRB)
• Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
• Senate of Canada
• Service Canada (ServCan)
• Statistics Canada (StatCan)
• Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB)
• Transport Canada (TC)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
• Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)
• Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)

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