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"On the Radar" addresses issues that may be important to the trailer and vocational truck manufacturing industries. This can be anything from federal or provincial legislation that affects the sectors to world affairs that put stress on all businesses. We'll be talking with experts in various industries to get their thoughts on the topics of the day.
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Any company manufacturing vehicles in Canada, or that vehicle ships from one province to another, must affix their National Safety Mark (NSM) number to those vehicles. As well, most provincial Highway Traffic Acts require companies affix an NSM to all vehicles they manufacture. The purpose of the NSM is to certify their vehicle production complies …
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Tara Lehman of Netwomen joins Don to discuss the need for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) in the modern workplace. She will look at the benefits of considering DEIB for companies in recruiting and retaining talent in today’s competitive labour market and available resources for introducing a DEIB company culture. Tara Lehman is N…
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We continue with highlights from this year's CTEA Annual Conference. The next three episodes feature the Labour and Immigration discussions. This episode is part 1 of a discussion with Julie Demers, Vice President of Legal Affairs & Human Capital at Manac, and Nathalie St-Pierre, the General Manager at Les Ateliers Beau-Roc. They share their experi…
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Episode 12 is a continuation of the previous episode. Julie Demers, Vice President of Legal Affairs & Human Capital at Manac, and Nathalie St-Pierre, the General Manager at Les Ateliers Beau-Roc, share their experiences with recruiting and hiring overseas workers under the Temporary Foreign Worker program, this time, expounding on some of the chall…
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This is the final instalment of our CTEA 2023 annual conference coverage. It's the final Labour and Immigration session featuring Marie-Josée Groulx , Director of strategic partnerships and integration for the New Brunswick provincial government, and William Gobeil, a Quebec lawyer providing immigration services to both Canadian businesses and fore…
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This episode features the first half of the trailer manufacturers roundtable discussion, recorded at CTEA’s Annual Conference in September. The session was a full hour long, so we split it roughly in half to make it a little more digestible. We’ll have the second half of the discussion in the next episode. The topic is “Improving Efficiency and Pro…
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This episode features the second half of the trailer manufacturers roundtable discussion, recorded at CTEA’s Annual Conference in September. The session was an hour long so we split it into two parts to make it a little more digestible. Part 1 of the session can be found in the previous episode. The topic is “Improving Efficiency and Productivity i…
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Climate change is the most pressing problem of our generation. Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters estimates transitioning industry to net-zero will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. That transition will be a huge undertaking that can't be done overnight and can't be done alone. Yet the federal government, at one time, seemed prepared to leave i…
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While Canada may have won the geographic lottery in sharing a border with the world's biggest economy, Canadian manufacturers have been less successful in cracking overseas markets. The United States consumes more that 80% of our exports, leaving little capacity for growing other trade channels. The question is, how do we get manufacturers to inves…
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Canada is the smallest country of the G7 nations, which makes it difficult to compete at scale with some of our trading partners -- particularly our neighbours to the south. We need a little help to stay competitive, but is it government’s role to fill that gap? What can government do with help Canadian businesses compete globally? Manufacturers ne…
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The Canadian manufacturing sector has been kicking along pretty successfully for generations. But new challenges have emerged in recent years that could hinder the sector’s ability to perform at peak capacity: skills shortages, supply chain problems, meeting decarbonization targets, and an unstable geopolitical environment. Over the next four episo…
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Blair Norberg wears two big pairs of shoes. As vice-president of Western Canadian truck-upfitter, Falcon Equipment, he’s responsible for guiding his business through these turbulent times. As president of the Canadian Transportation Equipment Association, he’s got his eye on the big picture of the truck equipment sector in Canada. With all that on …
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How many times haves have you said, Gee, government need to do something about that. Well, government seldom moves of its own accord. There are armies of associations like CTEA and CME working behind the scenes to get those pressing issues onto the table in Ottawa and elsewhere. Is what they do called advocacy or is it lobbying? Matt Poirier senior…
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The manufacturing sector constitutes about 11% to Canada’s GDP. It’s the single biggest output after real estate. It's incredibly important to Canada's wellbeing, but it’s highly segmented and spread far and wide across the country. Both the Canadian Transportation Equipment Association and Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters have your back; they …
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EPISODE 1: The trade angst between the US and China doesn’t just affect the two countries and their business communities. When two superpowers who happen to be the number one and two economies on the planet go at one another it affects everyone. As a neighbour essentially in the US’s backyard Canada has no real hope of remaining unaffected. Birgit …
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