Advocacy. Benefits. Training. Wellness. Canada's largest construction association. 4-time Reed Award winner for top North American Trade Association
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Jun 11
Ottawa wants to double Canada's non-US exports in a decade. Geography has other plans. New from @FraserInstitute — co-authored by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson:
🇺🇸 World's largest economy ($23.8T — 27% bigger than China)
🚛 70% of Canadians live within 100km of the US border
📦 Vancouver–LA: 1,245 nautical miles. Vancouver–Shanghai: 5,151.
The pull south isn't politics. It's gravity.
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Jun 10
The Bank of Canada calls the 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 productivity gap a national "emergency." RBC calls the last decade a "capital recession."
That's not bad luck. That's bad policy.
ICBA's 2026 federal priorities to fix it:
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Jun 4
Canada has lost roughly 120,000 jobs so far in 2026.
GDP shrank in Q1 — on top of a contraction in Q4. No growth in three of the last four quarters.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson asks the question Ottawa keeps dodging: is Canada already in recession?
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Jun 2
Alberta still leads Canada on household income.
Median after-tax household income in Alberta: $85,300 in 2024 — $9,800 above the national average, $9,500 higher than B.C., $5,800 ahead of Ontario.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on why — and what's next for the energy province:
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May 27
NEW from ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson:
The IMF says 40% of jobs worldwide will be hit by AI.
Construction? Way less exposed than most.
Only ~1 in 5 journeyperson trades face high automation risk — and a 12% jump in construction labour demand is projected by 2030.
The trades aren't going anywhere: na3.hubs.ly/y0sLlk0
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May 20
Canada's productivity gap with the U.S. just hit a record. Construction — 8-9% of GDP, 1.5 million jobs — is a big part of why.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on a new Goldman Sachs study, and what it means for Canadian wages, housing costs, and competitiveness: na3.hubs.ly/y0syDt0
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May 14
NEW from ICBA's Jock Finlayson & @KenPeacock14:
B.C.'s private sector has shed 59K jobs this year — a 3.1% ⬇️.
That's the largest (non-COVID) 3-month drop since the late 1990s — worse than the 2008-09 global financial crisis.
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May 13
Alberta's construction sector grew 19.4% from 2021 to 2025. B.C.'s grew just 5.2%.
Residential construction tells the real story — Alberta UP 18.9%, B.C. DOWN 13.4%.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on why he's more optimistic about Alberta than B.C. over the next two years: na3.hubs.ly/y0syH80
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May 12
Imagine blowing through reserves, seeing costs 🚀, draining a surplus and seeing fees go to 3rd-highest in Canada.
WorkSafeBC: another NDP dumpster fire in the making.
Unbelievably, the Minister says premiums are "a bargain for employers, frankly."
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May 11
For the first time since the 2009 financial crisis, B.C. is losing more businesses than it's creating.
25K businesses exited in 2023 — up 11% from 2017. Private-sector GDP growth has crashed to just 1%.
New from ICBA's Jock Finlayson & Ken Peacock:
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May 7
Leading a hybrid team is harder than leading a co-located one. ICBA's Leading Hybrid Teams workshop with Kwela gives managers the tools to fix communication, trust & accountability gaps.
📅 May 13, 8:30 AM PDT | 3.5 hrs | Member rate $285 GST
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May 6
Sounds like Mark Carney's new fund quietly gives unionized contractors an unfair bidding advantage.
That shuts 75% of Canada's construction workforce out of projects their own taxes pay for — and 85% of B.C. tradespeople.
NEW from ICBA's Chris Gardner: canada.constructconnect.com/…
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May 1
The Carney Government just put $6 BILLION on the table for skilled trades training.
The catch? A whack of $ flows only through the building trades unions, shutting out 85% of B.C. and 88% of Alberta's trades workforce.
This needs fixing: icba.ca/bc-blog/icba-to-otta…
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Apr 30
And a Bill Reid story? This really is peak Langley/Cloverdale/political/construction/commonsense nerdery. And we're along for the voyage.
Apr 30
Having exhausted his rolodex, Steven Malkowich welcomed me aboard his @ShipoffoolsHQ podcast. Talked about a bunch of stuff and, of course, had the obligatory shoutout to @WACBennett because THIS IS B.C. POLITICS GOSH DARN IT.
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Apr 30
NEW from ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson:
🔴 $25B for Carney's "Canada Strong Fund"
🔴 Every dollar borrowed
🔴 Federal deficits every year since 2015
Stacking new programs on a decade of fiscal failure won't fix Canada's economy. Tax & regulatory reform will.
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Apr 30
Your best tradespeople became foremen because they were great at the work. This course helps them become great at leading people.
Lead to Succeed: Leadership Skills for Foremen — May 12–13 | Member: $399 FREE coaching sessions included.
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Apr 28
25 years of trying to reduce U.S. trade dependence barely moved the needle.
@FraserInstitute research from ICBA's Jock Finlayson shows Canada's export ties to the U.S. are deeply "sticky" — and the current push to diversify will be no different without serious structural change.
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Apr 23
BC's OHS Regulation just changed — Parts 8 & 31 have been amended. Do you know what it means for your sites? Free 1-hour webinar with Jeff Weaver of InUnison breaks it all down. April 30 | 8:30 AM | Free
🔗 icbatraining.arlo.co/w/cours…
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Apr 23
We’re stepping up again at ICBA. 💙🏗️
Another $500,000 committed to the ICBA Foundation on top of last year’s $3M endowment.
Supporting:
🧠 Mental health
🎓 Training access through bursaries & scholarships
👷 The next generation of trades
This is about legacy. Impact. The future of our industry.
Get involved: icbafoundation.ca
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