{"id":4973,"date":"2022-02-18T16:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbtu-corporate-site.local\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:56:05","slug":"statement-by-canadas-building-trades-unions-on-trans-mountain-expansion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.buildingtrades.ca\/en\/statement-by-canadas-building-trades-unions-on-trans-mountain-expansion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions on Trans Mountain Expansion Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4973\" class=\"elementor elementor-4973\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-472a8baf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"472a8baf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-443d4ed9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"443d4ed9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions support Deputy Prime Minister Freeland\u2019s announcement today, to ensure the Trans Mountain Expansion Project \u2013 an important part of Canada\u2019s economy \u2013 continues. We are also encouraged to see this won\u2019t utilize public money, and that Trans Mountain Corporation will instead secure the funding necessary to complete the project with third-party financing.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is estimated that the project will generate over 15,000 construction jobs including demand for new apprentices, jobs and training opportunities for Indigenous peoples, and, it will result in ongoing demand for skilled trades workers in maintenance, extraction facilities, refineries and other facilities, creating jobs that contribute to Canada\u2019s economic health. This project provides a rich training ground for the next generation and good jobs for the workers of today and the future.<\/p>\n\n<p>Large projects, like the Trans Mountain Expansion Project are extremely difficult to execute and we supported the government\u2019s move to step in and purchase the pipeline and now, to see that through to completion. The government\u2019s support makes sense \u2013 this is a nation-building project. The project funds green investments and shifts the transportation of oil away from more carbon intensive methods. The revenue generated from the project will provide our government the money to reinvest in renewable energy and technology to achieve our climate goals. It will be all Canadians who benefit from the royalties and the thousands of construction jobs it has and will continue to create.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions support Deputy Prime Minister Freeland\u2019s announcement today, to ensure the Trans Mountain Expansion Project \u2013 an important part of Canada\u2019s economy \u2013 continues. 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