b'Message from the PresidentMessage du prsidentStephen CryneI would like to begin my last column of 2022 byJ e voudrais commencer mon dernier message de 2022 en remerciant la communaut du CERC thanking the CERC community for the ongoing support over the past year. With the leadership andpour son appui constant. Grce au leadership et commitment of our board of directors and the scores of lengagement de notre Conseil dadministration volunteers that do much of the heavy lifting at CERC,et des nombreux bnvoles, nous avons prospr we have thrived during a very challenging and malgr les incertitudes et difficults de la dernire anne.uncertain year.Merci aux administrateurs qui ont pass le relais cette anne : To our board members who passed the baton this year Debbie Barclay (SIRVA BGRS), Mathieu Blanger (AMJ) et Debbie Barclay (SIRVA BGRS), Mathieu Belanger (AMJ) andJan Owen (Banque TD). Et un merci spcialnotre prsidente Jan Owen (TD Bank)a huge thank you for your servicedu Conseil Hollyanne Healey (PCL Constructors) pour son from all of us. And a special thank you to our chair Hollyanneleadership astucieux en cette poque sans prcdent.Healey (PCL Constructors), who brought the astute leadership needed during these unprecedented times.Nous souhaitons la bienvenue aux nouveaux administrateurs :Melody Jones (Nova Chemical), Patricia Serwe (CGI) et A very warm welcome to our new board members, MelodyMark Schueler (Bristol Global Mobility). Je me rjouisJones (Nova Chemical), Patricia Serwe (CGI) and Marklide de travailler avec chacun dentre vous au cours des trois Schueler (Bristol Global Mobility). I look forward to workingprochaines annes. Je me rjouis galement de travailler aux with each of you over the next three years. I also look forwardcts de Roy Phelps (QMM), le nouveau prsident du CERC, to working alongside Roy Phelps (QMM), CERCs new chair,dans ce qui promet dtre une autre anne de changement.in what is promising to be another year of change forour industry. Il est passionnant de voir tant de nouveaux membres rejoindre la communaut du CERC. Jencourage ces nouveaux membres Continuing with warm welcomes, it is exciting to see so many profiter de tout ce que le CERC aoffrir, et lune des meil-new members joining the CERC community. I encourageleures faons de le faire est de rejoindre lun de ses nombreux new members to take advantage of all CERC has to offer, andcomits de travail. Vous trouverez tous les dtails sur le site one of the best ways to do that is by joining one of its manyWeb du CERC.working committees. Full details can be found on theCERC website.Le Comit de planification de la confrence a fait un succs avec la confrence annuelle de cette anne et la clbration du The Conference Planning Committee knocked it out of the40e anniversaireSt. Johns, Terre-Neuve. Nous avions une park with this years annual conference and 40th Anniversaryformidable liste de confrenciers alors que nous nous runis-celebration in St. Johns, Newfoundland. We had a terrificsions pour la premire fois depuis 2019. Il tait rconfortant de lineup of speakers and opportunities for networking as wefaire lexprience des embrassades et des amitis ravives, et came together for the first time since 2019. I can sincerelynous avons accueilli plus de 70 nouveaux participants !lap-share that it was heartwarming to experience the hugs andproche des ftes, nos comits rgionaux saffairentplanifier rekindled friendships, and we welcomed over 70 first-timedes vnements festifs.attendees! As we head into the holiday season, our regional committees are now busy planning festive events to celebratePlus tt cet automne, le fdral a annonc ses objectifs en and reconnect with the CERC community at a local level.matire dimmigration. Quelque 500 000 immigrants seront accueillis chaque anne dici 2025. Limmigration reprsente Earlier this fall, the federal government announced its immi- dj 100 % de la croissance de la population active et fera 100 gration targets for the next three years, which will see some% de la croissance dmographique au cours de la prochaine 500,000 new immigrants each year by 2025. Immigrationdcennie. Le CERC plaide depuis longtemps en faveur dun already accounts for 100 per cent of growth in Canadas labourplan pluriannuel, et nous avons t heureux de voir le gouver-force and will account for 100 per cent of population growthnement poursuivre cette pratique. Dans le mme temps, il faut within the next decade. CERC has long advocated for a multi- mettre laccent sur limmigration conomique ; elle reprsentait year plan, and we were pleased to see the government continueenviron deux tiers des 405 000 nouveaux arrivants en 2022.with this practice. At the same time, there must be a strong focus on economic immigration; it accounted for approxi- La pnurie de travailleurs continue de proccuper les entre-mately two-thirds of the 405,000 newcomers in 2022.prises. Aucune industrie ny chappe. Avec plus de 2,5 millions de candidatslimmigration, on peut se demander pourquoi A significant challenge for businesses across Canada continuesil faut tant de mois pour traiter mme les demandes les plus to be a shortage of workers. No industry has escaped thissimples. La rponse sexplique par plusieurs facteurs, dont la 8PERSPECTIVES Winter 2022'