The world is changing rapidly. In response, Canada is focused on what we can control: building a stronger, more independent, and more sustainable economy.
Today, we introduced Bill C-39: the Building Canada Strong Act, the next step to help Canadian businesses reach more customers across Canada and around the world, accelerate infrastructure projects, and build a stronger Canadian economy that creates good-paying careers and opportunities for all Canadians. Workers and employers are at the heart of Building Canada Strong. Across the country, workers, unions, employers, and partners told us what they need from a modern labour relations framework. Canadian prosperity depends on Canadians’ ability to adapt and succeed together in a rapidly changing economy.
The proposed legislation will:
Build Canada Now: Get projects in Canada built faster by ensuring federal reviews and decisions are completed within one year of a proponent submitting a comprehensive application – while protecting nature and the environment, and in full respect of Indigenous rights.
Keep Canada Moving: Strengthen Canada’s trade corridors and ports to move Canadian goods faster, unlock new markets, and build more resilient supply chains.
Canada Strong for All: Strengthen the labour relations framework, support employers’ and unions’ responsibility to negotiate in good faith, and protect workers’ rights – including the right to strike.
Canada has what the world wants, and the talent to deliver it. The Building Canada Strong Act will allow us to move faster to build, invest, trade, and create high-paying Canadian careers.
