{"id":7755,"date":"2024-04-17T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildingtrades.ca\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:49:54","slug":"statement-on-budget-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.buildingtrades.ca\/en\/statement-on-budget-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Budget 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7755\" class=\"elementor elementor-7755\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e0cbc83 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7e0cbc83\" 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-5c2ba722 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5c2ba722\" 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 welcomes the introduction of Budget 2024 and the new measures introduced by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland. Budget 2024 includes new funding for existing measures to support skilled trades, new supports for net-zero technology investments, and measures which will help address the exploitation of workers.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThis year\u2019s budget took great strides to support Canada\u2019s skilled trades workers. We were pleased to see stable funding for Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy, Sustainable Jobs Training Fund, and Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness Program, coupled with continued investments in nuclear development and net-zero technology investments. This will strengthen our workforce and ensure Canada has the support it needs as we forge ahead building new homes and transitioning our nation\u2019s economy to a net-zero future.\u201d<\/strong> says Sean Strickland, Executive Director of Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions<\/p>\n\n<p>Budget 2024 saw continued investments in programs that support skilled trades apprentices, with $100 Million in funding for Employment and Social Development Canada, with $90 million allocated to the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy and the $10 Million allocated to the Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness Program.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cBeyond new Investment Tax Credits and other measures, one potentially overlooked item in the budget that we are very excited to see is a new measure which will go towards ending the misclassification of workers, with new agreements between EDSC and CRA to provide the data and funding required for enforcement. This will help protect workers from misclassification, enable better enforcement, and bring workers out of the underground economy,\u201d <\/strong>says Strickland.<\/p>\n\n<p><br \/>Misclassification occurs when workers are styled as \u2018independent contractors\u2019 by unscrupulous employers to avoid payroll taxes and remittances to government programs, such as workplace safety insurance funds, employment insurance, and Canada Pension Plan. Misclassification of workers robs workers of their protections and exposes them to exploitation and contributes to the so-called \u2018underground economy\u2019.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt may seem like a smaller measure in the budget, but we\u2019ve been asking for progress on dealing with the underground economy, and misclassified workers for many years,\u201d<\/strong> continued Strickland, <strong>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to see the government start laying the groundwork in terms of the data and connections needed to make enforcement possible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><br \/>Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions are also eager to engage with government on its national housing strategies, which the government indicated in Budget 2024 would include innovative measures to advance the pace at which housing is built in Canada. 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