Canadian Manufacturing Coalition | Priority Issues

Leadership - A concerted strategy that recognizes the importance of manufacturing and responds to the short-term priorities and longer-term competitive requirements of the sector.

Focus on adding value - A made-in-Canada manufacturing strategy that takes full advantage of the growth prospects of our resource-based industries by encouraging the development of value-adding supply chains, products and services.

Invest in new technology - Ensure that taxes on capital investments in Canada are the lowest among industrialized countries.

Invest in innovation - Enhance the innovation capacity of Canadian industries.

Invest in workforce capabilities - Ensure that skills and capabilities meet the needs of modern manufacturing.

Increase regulatory efficiency - Ensure regulatory processes are internationally competitive, simplified, coherent, coordinated, streamlined, efficient, low-cost and effective. Accountability and timely decision-making are essential elements of competitive regulations.

Invest in infrastructure - Ensure a world-class logistics and energy infrastructure.

Open markets around the world - Ensure trade policies and programs work for manufacturing, enabling real access into international markets and affording Canadian businesses adequate safeguards against foreign protectionism.