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Help wanted: Workforce planning key for northern infrastructure, military projects
Experts say northern megaprojects will require fly-in crews, long-term training and equity partnerships with Indigenous communities to fill 675 projected jobs on one project.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more than $35 billion for Northern military and infrastructure investments in March, as 15 major proposals were referred to the federal major projects office for expedited approval.
- Jim Landon, president of ATCO Frontec, told the Arctic Energy Resource Symposium earlier this year that the investment scale 'staggers' him, citing severe scarcity of skilled tradespeople already employed across the North.
- Stressing equity partnerships with local Indigenous groups, Landon said his focus has 'raised eyebrows' among southern firms. The Inuit-led Grays Bay Road and Port project anticipates 675 construction jobs and 257 operational positions.
- Tlicho Investment Corp. CEO Paul Gruner urged a 'holistic approach' to close the productivity gap and recruit from under-represented communities. He warned that local Indigenous groups suffer if southern companies perform all work.
- Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, noted intense competition for limited Inuit labour. Projects will likely require fly-in-fly-out crews from the South to address recruitment challenges.
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Help wanted: Workforce planning key for northern infrastructure, military projects
Canada's North has an outsized presence on the list of infrastructure proposals referred to the federal major projects office so far, all while Ottawa looks to spend big on bolstering the country's military presence in the Arctic. The scale of the work ahead is "enormous," Prime Minister M...
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