Effective nation-building starts with the people and places where it happens

Strategic place-based industrial planning that attracts new investment and aligns workforce development with regional economic diversification can help spur community renewal.

Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu. If local workers lack the training to access new employment opportunities, and communities are missing the tools needed to adapt projects to their realities, federal investments risk passing them by, write Shaimaa Yassin, Abigail Jackson, and Noel Baldwin.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHAIMAA YASSIN, ABIGAIL JACKSON, NOEL BALDWIN

December 8, 2025

Canada’s major projects agenda will be judged not only by the dollars it mobilizes, ...

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