76 | Business World Magazine |
April 2013
The current focus for that voice is the
issue of labour supply – more specifically, the
upcoming lack of it.
The Construction Sector Council
(CSC) is a trade labour market secretariat
that releases an annual Labour Market In-
formation (LMI) assessment. According to
their LMI for 2011, the construction in-
dustry in Canada will have to find roughly
320,000 new workers by 2019 just to replace
those that are retiring from the industry and
keep pace with demand. As part of their as-
sessment, the CSC examined how many of
those jobs could be replaced domestically –
