Despite the blistering pace of job losses industrywide, chemical, plastics sector sees growth opportunities

The industry has more than $7-billion of new investment activity that remains underway or is scheduled to come into production in late 2021 or early 2022.

There are billions more in large-scale maintenance and other projects that have been put on hold, but will be restarted as soon as possible, writes Bob Masterson, president of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY BOB MASTERSON

June 12, 2020

The pandemic has caused the fastest and most disruptive economic downturn in Canadian history. Statistics Canada, in its April Labour Force Survey, found Canada’s unemployment rate had skyrocketed to 13 per cent, with more than three million Canadians losing their j...

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