ACA meets Jobs Minister Matt Jones
ACA Chair Trevor Doucette and Vice Chair Jen Hancock met July 25th with Matt Jones, Minister of Jobs, Economy and Trade. ACA stressed the desire for a business environment preserving jobs for construction workers. In particular, ACA expressed concerns about the Government of Alberta considering an exemption to prompt pay provisions as a means to […]
New Government of Alberta Cabinet
Alberta Construction Association congratulates the newly appointed Cabinet for Alberta’s Provincial Government. We look forward to working with the government as a valuable stakeholder. ACA Chairman Trevor Doucette has begun reaching out to Premier Danielle Smith and her Cabinet colleagues to share construction industry priorities and offer industry expertise to assist the Government in continuing […]
Alberta Construction Groups Raise Policy Concerns
On April 26 ACA along with Progressive Contractors Association and ICBA Alberta sent a letter of concern to Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley in regards to some of the promises being made by the opposition party ahead of the provincial election. On September 20, 2022 at a convention of the Building Trades of Alberta (BTA), […]
How Election Writ Affects Industry
The Alberta election is coming up on May 29th during the campaign period the work of government is managed differently that at other times. The normal business of government and the day-to-day administration of departments and other agencies in the public sector, will continue as usual through the caretaker period. Decisions made before the election […]
Workplace Choice a Must for Albertans
ACA supports worker choice and the whole industry in Chair Trevor Doucette’s letter to the editor following an op-ed characterizing double breasted non-union employers as shortchanging their employees. Some additional context regarding the op-ed in the March 21 Journal. Double-breasting, whereby a parent company has both union and non-union operating businesses, has been a feature […]
ACA applauds Infrastructure Minister’s leadership to move toward implementation of prompt pay on Public Works Projects
ACA advocates pleased to see the government is moving toward applying prompt pay legislation to Public Works Acts projects. Infrastructure Minister Nathan Neudorf heard industry and promised to take first steps despite the short legislative window of time before the next election. ACA applauds Minister Neudorf and the Government of Alberta for publicly acting through […]
2023 Budget Reaction – “A Good First Budget”
Alberta Construction Association has reviewed the first full Provincial Budget of Premier Danielle Smith’s Government and believes it is a good first step. However, the measures the Government has undertaken to support Alberta’s strong economic growth likely mean revisiting key investments in infrastructure and workforce. The Capital Budget ACA applauds the Budget for spreading investments […]
ACA Board Changes
At ACA’s Annual General Meeting at the end of January new Chair Trevor Doucette (Graham Construction) was elected as John Winter (Cooper Concrete) moved into the Past Chair role. Joining them on the management committee is Jason Portas (PCL) and Jen Hancock (Chandos) formerly the Edmonton Construction Association representative on the board. Trevor joined ACA’s […]
ACA January 2023 Report
Each year we publish a report detailing what was accomplished in the previous year and where we are headed in the new year. With so much going on this year both for ACA and the province we are publishing this report to talk about what our priorities are going into the first half of 2023. […]
Alberta’s Construction Associations applaud direction laid out in Ministerial Mandate Letters
Premier Danielle Smith’s direction to Ministers is a solid step towards addressing long standing and emerging issues of Alberta’s construction industry. Ministerial mandate letters across Government address key issues for Alberta’s contractors. Mandate letters can be found here (https://open.alberta.ca/publications/mandate-letters-to-ministers-2022). Highlights include: Alberta Construction Association and the 8 regional construction associations offer their expertise to partner […]