ICBA | Join Us!

Advocacy. Benefits. Training. Wellness. Canada's largest construction association. 4-time Reed Award winner for top North American Trade Association

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Jon Coleman is a contractor from Cowichan Tribes. He tried to bid on the new hospital in his own community.

He wasn't allowed — because his workers didn't carry a card from one of 19 NDP-approved unions.

That's the Community Benefits Agreement. 85% of B.C.'s trades shut out of projects their taxes pay for.

New from @jordanbateman: https://t.co/lx0ihLObPy

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

"Not one homebuilder, contractor, or developer I know asked government to buy their unsold condos..."

But we know who has been buying up units for months... David Eby. So whose bailout is this? David Eby's.

Read ICBA's Chris Gardner in @BeatNorthern.

https://t.co/Vom1aTmMDu

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Wednesday is Canada Day. It's also the day Alberta has to put a 1-million-barrel-a-day pipeline proposal on @MarkJCarney's desk.

Smith wants to get to yes. Carney says he does too.
The hurdle? David Eby and the BC NDP, as usual.

New episode of ICBA Coffee & Construction 👇

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

New episode of ICBA Coffee & Construction is up. 9 minutes. The news that matters to people who build.

Today: the condo bailout, Eby's early flight home from China, and a construction-jobs warning.

Watch 👇
https://t.co/HOyGWeFM9E

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

The most dangerous word on a job site? "Nothing" — what crews say they saw when fear kept them quiet.

Free ICBA lunch-and-learn on psychological safety in construction.

📅 July 9, 11AM PDT.

Register: https://t.co/poUXeL5tXH

[Journal of Commerce @JOC_Canada]

The @taxpayerDOTcom has announced the appointment of @icbabc's Chris Gardner as chair of its board of directors.
https://t.co/C26XPrRYDs

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Massey commuters (And B.C. taxpayers!) deserve better than how the NDP are bungling away billions.

More at https://t.co/i70CVU2p0h

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

How many more years will the NDP drag their heels on a new Massey?

The NDP just torched the contract. Major construction now pushed past 2027.

A $3B bridge — cancelled by the NDP in 2017 — is now a $9-$11BN tunnel. 4X the price.

ICBA's Chris Gardner: https://t.co/i70CVU2p0h

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

The U.S. buys ~70% of everything Canada exports.

Carney says deepen U.S. trade AND cut our dependence on it — but won't say how. And the CUSMA review starts July 1.

ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on the balancing act nobody in Ottawa has explained: https://t.co/2FJhJUotcs

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

B.C. approved a big new mine last week. Then took a bow for the very law that just froze everybody else's.

Meanwhile Alberta's winning a massive construction race — because it has the power to build.

New episode of ICBA Coffee & Construction 👇

[Jordan Bateman @jordanbateman]

🇨🇦 Canada’s economy is barely treading water. B.C.’s is closer to the rocks.

ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson’s mid-year update: weak growth, negative job creation, stalled housing, poor business climate — and a much stronger Alberta next door.

https://t.co/XyDSyjerrI

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Congratulations to our President and CEO Chris Gardner on being named Chair of the Board of @taxpayerDOTcom. (Don't worry ICBA members: he isn't going anywhere!)

https://t.co/dsDbv2gILd

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Same coast. Same jobs. Same partnerships.

David Eby will cut ribbons on LNG and mines — but veto an Alberta oil pipeline to B.C.'s coast. He just doesn't like the liquid in the pipe.

That's not a principle. That's politics.

Episode 1 of ICBA Coffee & Construction is live 👇

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

⛏️$90 BILLION in economic output. $41BN in investment. 10K+ jobs paying ~$139K a year.

That's the prize from 27 proposed B.C. mining projects — and the NDP is putting it at risk.

A new moratorium on 16M hectares. Court rulings throwing mineral tenure into chaos. Investment will go elsewhere.

New from ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson & Karen Graham:

https://t.co/dR9dJ2jWsy

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Buried in email and meetings? "Time Management — Get Organized" gives you a workflow system that boosts productivity 20–80%.

Live online July 14, member rate $285+GST.

Register: https://t.co/cjbhQutDdX

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Alberta tops the country in GDP per person at nearly $75,000 — and it isn't close.
B.C.? $60,131. Just a hair above the national average.
ICBA's Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock on why Alberta owns the podium — and what B.C. should learn from it:

https://t.co/GQZKF2zmG3

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Canada has an entrepreneurial drought. Business entry rates have plummeted nearly 50% since the mid-1980s — and since early 2024, more businesses are closing than opening. The gap keeps widening.

ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on what it means:

https://t.co/8n9dXI0KEi

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

Ottawa wants to double Canada's non-US exports in a decade. Geography has other plans. New from @FraserInstitute — co-authored by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson:

🇺🇸 World's largest economy ($23.8T — 27% bigger than China)
🚛 70% of Canadians live within 100km of the US border
📦 Vancouver–LA: 1,245 nautical miles. Vancouver–Shanghai: 5,151.

The pull south isn't politics. It's gravity.

https://t.co/epsJFYUUTC

[ICBA | Join Us! @icbabc]

The Bank of Canada calls the 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 productivity gap a national "emergency." RBC calls the last decade a "capital recession."

That's not bad luck. That's bad policy.

ICBA's 2026 federal priorities to fix it:
https://t.co/UG7ysWHxIc