b'File name: 2023_Trisura TLC Ad_4.583x9.5_4C Client: TRISURAMirja Einarson Size: Custom Created: December 22, 2021416.565.9767mirja@castlemore-graphics.ca Trim: 4.583 W x 9.5 H Modified: March 27, 2023 4:08 PMColour Mode: CMYK Resolution: at least 300 DPIGOVERNMENT AFFAIRSUnderground Infrastructure Notification System Act, 2012 to allow contractors to receive locates for underground infrastructure from utilities more quickly.Bill 2, Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022: Schedule 6 removes a previously existing requirement for WSIB to be located in Toronto. They have announced that they are going to move it to London, Ontario, and they will reduce their footprint, says Cunningham. London is a lower-cost operating environment, but COCA will likely ask for a business case.Bill 46, Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023: In a move that Cunningham describes as not very consequential, Schedule 9 amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act such that WSIB is no longer required to provide a strategic plan to the Minister and reduces the number of board meetings to four per year.In addition, COCA has been working on reform of the Construction Acttechnical process reforms, not policy reforms, says Cunningham. After five years of smart work with this new statute, certain disconnects have become apparent, and we want to smooth those out. We have become very active in working on that with other stakeholders.Cunningham notes that to date there have been about 200 adjudications under the Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts program. COCA isTrisura goes a working to promote awareness ofthe process.TRADES AND IMMIGRATION step above In January, the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development launched a new agency for apprenticeship and skilled trades, calledTrust the experts at Trisura to Skilled Trades Ontario. It is essentially the successor to the Ontario Collegefind the right solutions for your of Trades, but without the regulation authority, says Cunningham. One of theirconstruction business.important mandates is to modernize the curriculum and harmonize it with other jurisdictions. Theyre also responsible fortrisura.comtrade equivalencies. Theres an enormous skills shortage, so theres a lot of urgency to their mandate.The Ministry is also working with the federal government on immigrant nominees. Were pressing the Minister to have the number of immigrant nominees increased from 9,000 to 25,000, with as many as we can get into construction, Cunningham says.BUILDERSDIGEST Quarter 1 2023312023_Trisura TLC Ad_4.583x9.5_4C.indd 1 2023-03-27 4:09 PM'