King-Victoria Transit Hub

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If I'm understanding this correctly, would this not help the hub project?

Yeah, definitely. One of the requirements of the hub project was all bidders being registered with the union, which represented a massive restriction on who could bid. This should open it up significantly when the region tries the bidding process again.

It would, but there are a plethora of other provisions in the act that would dramatically reduce safeguards and regulations required on new construction.

So who's to say if it's helpful in the interim.  Long term, I believe we'll be worse off.

I'm not a fan of the bill on the whole, or just about anything the Ford government does, but I think this particular change is excellent and long overdue. Two employees building a shed on a Saturday got the entire region designated a construction employer, requiring every single regional project since 2012 (including the LRT) to not just have to hire unionized construction workers, but workers under one specific union. A study showed it shut out 84% of firms that previously would have bid on regional projects. Regardless of what one generally thinks of unions, it's clearly an insane result for two workers building a shed.

I don't think the union labour requirement was the critical issue here.

And does this actually affect regional projects, or only municipal ones?

I would have thought both, since the Region is a municipality, is it not?

Yes, the region is a municipality. They're already in the news saying it will affect them https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener...-1.4936608