LEADERSHIP-WITH-PROFIT-2012.pdf

Letter from Hon Gary Goodyear – March 2012

Dear Colleague,

This Thursday, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters will launch icme.ca – the only national website of its kind, connecting worker skill sets, education and practical experience with the specific needs of industry, coast-to-coast.

I would like to invite you to share this resource with your members.

iCME has been designed as more than just a jobs board. We want to make it a unique skills portal and centralized source of information to help match the right people with the right skill sets with the right, innovative career opportunities in manufacturing and exporting.

Until May 1st, members of CME and CMC associations will be able to post unlimited jobs, free of charge, when using promo code canadasfuture.

If you would like a preview of iCME, please contact Derek Lothian, CME’s Manager, National Communications, at 613-296-2156 or e-mail derek.lothian@cme-mec.ca. The list of current partners on-board for our March 1 launch includes the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT), the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Skills Canada, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Jay

Jayson Myers

President & CEO

Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters

The Red Tape Reduction Committee released its report in mid January – see www.reduceredtape.gc.ca/index-eng.asp

The report opens up the possibility of new regulatory reform legislation which in turn gives us an opportunity to propose changes to promote regulatory efficiency – supporting good ideas in the Committee’s report as well as ensuring that a broader set of issues are raised that are important to manufacturers.

The report also raises two issues that we should be concerned about.

It focuses on administrative costs (paperburden) rather than all compliance costs – I think we need to broaden the debate to emphasize reforms that would affect the overall compliance burden facing manufacturers.

Second, it recommends that the User Fee Act be reviewed and amended to make it easier to introduce User Fees. Since the User Fee Act was introduced in the first place because the Government had no quality control (or overall financial control) of the fees it was introducing, and since it requires regulators to set competitive service standards in the administration of regulations (for which fees are paid), its principles are fundamental to regulatory management.

I would like to propose that we prepare a letter that would outline our issues and concerns with respect to the Committee’s report and make recommendations for the type of regulatory reforms we believe to be most effective for manufacturers.

I suggest that we convene a teleconference at 11:00 am next Tuesday, February 7^th, to discuss a CMC response. The call-in number is: 1 866 201 0077 – passcode: 122407.

We will subsequently circulate a draft of the letter to all CMC members.

Thanks Jay