ICBA is getting out the message about the importance of provincial infrastructure investments in advance of Tuesday’s provincial budget in British Columbia. Our column in the Journal of Commerce ran today on their website making the case that infrastructure builds the construction industry and the economic backbone of the province.
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NEW from ICBA's Jock Finlayson & @KenPeacock14:
B.C.'s private sector has shed 59K jobs this year — a 3.1% ⬇️.
That's the largest (non-COVID) 3-month drop since the late 1990s — worse than the 2008-09 global financial crisis.
Alberta's construction sector grew 19.4% from 2021 to 2025. B.C.'s grew just 5.2%.
Residential construction tells the real story — Alberta UP 18.9%, B.C. DOWN 13.4%.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on why he's more optimistic about Alberta than B.C. over the next two years: